40 quotes found
“[T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to hi...”
“[T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first fou...”
“Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.”
“[D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, without feelin...”
“[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.”
“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, trut...”
“The essence of faith is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is i...”
“[I]n love, man declares himself unsatisfied in his individuality taken by itself, he postulates the existence of another as a need of the heart; the life which he has through love to be the truly ...”
“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...”
“[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.”
“[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman”
“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 th...”
“[T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. … [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first fo...”
“Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.”
“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”
“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[.]”
“[T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to h...”
“[D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without fee...”
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is ...”
