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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza

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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. – Baruch Spinoza

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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God. – Albert Einstein

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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. – William Robertson Smith

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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. – Luke Ford

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. – George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. – Roald Dahl

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The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. – Serge Daney

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard

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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. Thats not a smile. – Jack Kevorkian

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