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Who suspends one law of nature suspends them all.

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The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

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The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.

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In practice, all men are Atheists; they deny their faith by their acts.

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Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

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I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

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Nature returns no answer to the questions and lamentations of man; inexorably it refers him to himself.

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To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

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In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

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What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.

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Hegel … proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. … He does not appeal to the intellect within us.

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The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.

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Speculation is philosophy intoxicated; let philosophy get sober again; it will then be to the mind what pure spring water is to the body.

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The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

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Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

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God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.

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Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

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What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

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Demonstrating is therefore only the means through which I strip my thought of the form of mine-ness so that the other person may recognize it as his own.

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Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

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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.

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The beginning of existence is nourishment. Food is the beginning of wisdom. The first condition of putting anything into your head and heart is to put something into your stomach.

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Theology is Anthropology...[T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

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While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

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The present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

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