Will Durant, 4: Spinoza, in The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World, A Touchstone book, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961 [1926], p. 125, ISBN 978-0-671-20159-3. URL consultato il 23 luglio 2017.
«...the movement of higher criticism which Spinoza initiated has made into platitudes the propositions for which Spinoza risked his life.»