It is an amazing thing that our memory best retains images of great philosophers when their lives were coming to an end. Socrates raising the chalice… - Benedictus de Spinoza

it is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of the subjects, as to the bad state of the dominion.

I shall not attempt to speculate as to what Spinoza might have been if he had lived in our time. For me, in any case, one thing is not open to doubt: Spinoza would never have been an agent of the League of Nations. The second point that I wish to emphasize is that we do not agree to yield Spinoza to our enemies in any case. There is no reason at all for this. Spinoza was a great materialistic thinker, and in this respect he should be considered a predecessor of dialectical materialism. The contemporary proletariat is Spinoza's only genuine heir.

POTENCIA (potentia) Esencia y potencia son lo mismo, según consta, luego no cabe la distinción aristotélica entre acto y potencia, sino la afirmación del ser como una entidad activa y dinámica. Esto significa en Dios que se cumple o realiza su doble potencia absoluta de ser y pensar, a través de la acción de los innumerables modos finitos (E2P7C), los cuales, a su vez, desarrollan en diferente medida (siempre limitada) las aptitudes de su potencia esencial o conatus para afectar y ser afectados, es decir, para interactuar conforme a su naturaleza particular.