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Quotes from Spinoza's Critique of Religion — Leo Strauss

1899–1973 Germany

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It was not the "God-intoxicated" philosopher but the hard-headed, not to say hard-hearted, pupil of Machiavelli and philologic-historical critic of the Bible. Orthodoxy could be returned to only if Spinoza was wrong in every respect.

Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)

In our time scholars generally study the Bible in the manner in which they study any other book. As is generally admitted, Spinoza more than any other man laid the foundation for this kind of Biblical study.

Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)

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