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“I hear about the love of friends but nothing about the love of God or of God’s purpose in his scheme of happiness.” “You’ve put your finger on an important point, Edward. Epicurus is shocking to today’s readers because his formula for happiness pays so little attention to the Divine. He believed that happiness emanates only from our own mind and places no importance on our relationship with anything supernatural.”
― 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

“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—”
― 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