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To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1851)
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.
Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1851)
We have busied ourselves and contented ourselves long enough with speaking and writing; now at last we demand that the word become flesh, the spirit matter; we are as sick of political as we are of philosophical idealism; we are determined to become political materialists.
Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1851)
But like the desire for eternal life, the desire for omniscience and absolute perfection is merely an imaginary desire; and, as history and daily experience prove, the supposed human striving for unlimited knowledge and perfection is a myth. Man has no desire to know everything; he only wants to know the things to which he is particularly drawn.
Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1851)