Introduction
Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)
“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”
Source: The Tempest
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes

“More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness”

“When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life.”
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life.... It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.... with trivial exceptions, all organisms on Earth use... an enzyme, to control the rate and direction of the chemistry of life.... a nucleic acid to encode the hereditary information... the identical code book for translating nucleic acid language into protein language.... At the molecular level, we are all virtually identical.

Source: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 49-52
"Being Gentle(& the haunted ice tray)" (28 October 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5fXvbVNFc

Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: We have two bits of evidence about the Somebody. One is the universe He has made. If we used that as our only clue, I think we should have to conclude that He was a great artist (for the universe is a very beautiful place), but also that He is quite merciless and no friend to man (for the universe is a very dangerous and terrifying place.)... The other bit of evidence is that Moral Law which He has put in our minds. And this is a better bit of evidence than the other, because it is inside information. You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

To the Reformers of England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)