Tao Te Ching

“Judaism in particular, without a country, a governing institution, a unified culture, a pure ethnic identity, an army, a creed, or a priesthood–a religion that has perfected the art of disagreement, of sustaining arguments of undiminished energy extending across centuries has never given itself completely over to civitas”

— Lewis Thomas 1913 – 1993 CE via Shan Dao
Gestaltist of science and art
from The Religious Case Against Belief (2008)