Bruno Bauer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Self #Ideas #Criticism
Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Real #Self #Essence
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Religious #Sweet #Sight
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Self #Progress #Obstacles
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Art #Children #Important
There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.
-- Bruno Bauer
The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Christian #Real #Sleep
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Order #Noble #World
We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Jesus #Giving #Honor
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Hype #Deceiving #Chains

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