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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Who you are

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

I have one of the great temperaments.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.