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Baruch Spinoza1632–1677

I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance.

Baruch Spinoza on theology

Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)

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