"The philosopher will ask himself … if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history."
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy (Chicago: 1963), p. 47
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