Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise Quotes

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.