The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it

Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.