Heretic Quote by Roger Scruton

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with…

— Albert Einstein

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men…

— Gilles Deleuze

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to…

— Marilyn Manson

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a…

— Shelby D. Hunt

Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for…

— Max Horkheimer

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for…

— Anthony Stevens

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

— W. Somerset Maugham

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley