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“Goethe is saying that Spinoza taught him to free his mind from the influence of others. To find his own feelings and his own conclusions and then act upon them. In other words, let your love flow, and do not let it be influenced by the idea of the love you may get in return.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“Why do all the miracles happen then, in the age of the Torah? Tell me, both of you, why is the miracle season over?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“When Einstein spoke of God, he spoke of Spinoza’s God—a God entirely equivalent to nature, a God that includes all substance, and a God “that doesn’t play dice with the universe”—by which he means that everything that happens, without exception, follows the orderly laws of nature.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“In other words it is not what you believe or say you believe, it is how you live that matters.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem