My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
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Simon Bolivar
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their...
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John A. Widtsoe
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
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John A. Widtsoe
The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By George Santayana
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The worship of power is an old religion.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
