It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue,
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Joseph Epstein
War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers