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“Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.”
“[This philosophy] is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman”
“[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman”
“I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future”
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]”
“How can the feeling man resist feeling, the loving one love? Who has not experienced the overwhelming power of melody? And what else is melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of fee...”
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed o...”
“Faith in the power of prayer is faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is the essence of faith in general. [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in ...”
“The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.”
“In reality, where everything passes on naturally, the copy follows the original, the image the thing which it represents, the thought its object, but on the supernatural, miraculous ground of theol...”
“[L]et it be remembered that atheism is the secret of religion ; religion in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
“The notion that the fulfilment of prayer has been determined from eternity, that it was originally included in the plan of creation, is the empty, absurd fiction of a mechanical mode of thought, wh...”
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
“Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the...”
“The Jewish people trusted themself to do nothing except that what was commanded by God; they were without will even in external things; the authority of religion extended itself even to their food....”
“The Jewish people trusted thmself to do nothing except that what was commanded by God; they were without will even in external things; the authority of religion extended itself even to their food. ...”
“Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]”
“[This philosophy] does not regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot”
“[T]here is no distinction between the predicates of the divine and human nature, and, consequently, no distinction between the divine and human subject [T]he predicates are not accidents, but expr...”
“I by no means say God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]”
