The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

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

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

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.

I am, therefore there is a God.

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