Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only po…

- Bruno Bauer

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,…

- Bruno Bauer

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 …

- Bruno Bauer

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 crit…

- Bruno Bauer

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 mor…

- Bruno Bauer

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciou…

- Bruno Bauer

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

After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a …

- Bruno Bauer

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

- Bruno Bauer