“This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no co…”

“This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.”

— Baruch Spinoza

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Title: Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza
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Context

Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).

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Spinoza, Baruch. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza

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