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“False ideas offer false and fragile comfort, thought Bento. But he held his tongue.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“You say that imperishable happiness lies elsewhere. Tell me about this ‘elsewhere.’” “I only know that it does not lie in perishable objects. It lies not outside but within. It is the mind that determines what is fearful, worthless, desirable, or priceless, and therefore it is the mind, and only the mind, that must be altered.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“I believe the problem has its root in a fundamental and massive error, the error of assuming that God is a living, thinking being, a being in our image, a being who thinks like us, a being who thinks about us.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“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.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem