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Religion Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
- Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
- I call him free who is led solely by reason.
- I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
- The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion…
- The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must…
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