"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ― Baruch Spinoza Topic(s): Religion More From Baruch Spinoza "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone." "Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts." "Happiness is a virtue, not its reward." More In Religion "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."― Moses Mendelssohn "We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word."― Origen "Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren’t Catholic anymore, like any religion."― Danny Masterson