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

“False ideas offer false and fragile comfort, thought Bento. But he held his tongue.”
― 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

“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