insofar as God loves himself, he loves men, and consequently that God's love of men and the Mind's intellectual Love of God are one and the same - Benedictus de Spinoza

The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself

Recuérdese que la crítica se dirige hacia los usos públicos del poder político-religioso, no hacia las creencias privadas, y en ese ámbito es obligada la beligerancia anticlerical a favor de la libertad.

[Spinoza] — A God-intoxicated man. [Original in German: Ein Gottbetrunkener Mensch.]

The work of the popularizer, though sometimes depreciated by professional students, is a very useful and necessary work, and in few cases more useful or more necessary than in the case of Spinoza. For, although Spinoza is often so difficult that even the best philosophers cannot be sure of having understood him, the essence of his doctrine is capable of being interesting and profitable to many who cannot devote themselves to metaphysics. Although the task of interpretation has been admirably performed for the technical reader by Mr. Joachim, and for a wider class by Sir Frederick Pollock, there must be many who will be grateful for the chance of reading the Ethics itself, without having to work their way through Spinoza's Latin.