Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of natu… - Benedictus de Spinoza

CUERPO Y MENTE, ALMA (corpus-mens, anima) El cuerpo es un modo del atributo de la «extensión» y el alma (en rigor la mente, o mens) lo es del atributo «pensamiento», y entre ambos hay una estricta correspondencia de «orden y conexión» (E2P7S). Esta pareja constituye a todo individuo, incluido el humano (E2P21S), para entender el cual hay que partir del campo de la experiencia corpórea y sus relaciones con el mundo y afirmar después el alma como idea reflexiva del cuerpo

Truly, all the lively, the lively men from the school of Kant, became Neospinozists! In other words, they became Spinozists. The Kantians became Spinozists—what happened? Why did the most prominent Kantians—Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, the best philosophical brains Germany has ever produced—become Spinozists? One will try in vain to find an answer to this question in our histories of philosophy, which do not even ask that legitimate and obvious question. And there is no other answer to it than this one: that it could not have been otherwise, since these truly philosophical men necessarily saw and felt how different Benedict Spinoza's stance within philosophy was from that of Kant, who—to say it in my blunt way—had nothing in common with philosophy.

I will not attempt to describe here the many lessons that I learned in the study of Spinoza, lessons that in several respects laid the foundation of my philosophy.