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“VI. BY GOD, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“In other words it is not what you believe or say you believe, it is how you live that matters.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“False ideas offer false and fragile comfort, thought Bento. But he held his tongue.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“Jacob, do you believe that God is all powerful?” Jacob nods. “That God is perfect? Complete unto Himself.” Again Jacob agrees. “Then surely you would agree that, by definition, a perfect and complete being has no needs, no insufficiencies, no wants, no wishes. Is that not so?” Jacob thinks, hesitates, and then nods warily. Spinoza notes the beginnings of a smile on Franco’s lips. “Then,” Spinoza continues, “I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“Xenophanes wrote that if oxen, lions, and horses had hands with which to carve images, they would fashion God after their own shapes and give him bodies like their own. I believe that if triangles could think they would create a God with the appearance and attributes of a triangle, or circles would create circular—”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
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