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Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.Baruch Spinoza
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He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.Baruch Spinoza
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The purpose of the state is really freedom.Baruch Spinoza
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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.Baruch Spinoza
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It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminated than to say this of God’s Word. In reply, I have to say that such objectors are carrying their piety too far, and are turning religion into superstition; indeed, instead of God’s Word they are beginning to worship likenesses and images, that is, paper and ink.Baruch Spinoza
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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.Baruch Spinoza
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Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.Baruch Spinoza