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Baruch Spinoza on Religion

1632–1677 Netherlands

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The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.

Ethics (1677)

In despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery is to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely for slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honor to risk their blood and lives for the vainglory of a tyrant.

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