I am, therefore there is a God.
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
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Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
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You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.
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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
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