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.

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.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Oaths are the fossils of piety

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.