Baruch Spinoza Quotes

As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

Baruch Spinoza

• God
• Wise
• Turned Away

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

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• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

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• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

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• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

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• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

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• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

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• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

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• The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

  

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• Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

  

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• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

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• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

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• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

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• You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

  

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• Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question.

  

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• There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

  

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• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Wise
  • Turned Away