He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
Baruch SpinozaI make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Baruch SpinozaThe more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
Baruch Spinoza