I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

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

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Judaism was not a religion but a law.