Somehow, Baruch Spinoza managed to get
himself kicked out of Judaism in 17th century Amsterdam,
where they probably didn't have a lot of Jews to spare. He said he
was going to quit anyway, thus originating the Groucho Marx/Woody
Allen line about not wanting to “belong to any club that would
accept me as a member.” Solitary, frugal, and monastic, he will
probably never be the subject of an action-packed biopic. Spinoza
earned his living as a lens maker. However, there is no evidence that
he died after falling into his own grinding apparatus, thereby making a
spectacle of himself.
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