Quotes by Bruno Bauer

About Bruno Bauer:

Bruno Bauer is also known by his association and sharp break with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and by his later association with Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Starting in 1840, he began a series of works arguing that Jesus was a 2nd-century fusion of Jewish, Greek, and Roman theology.
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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

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

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

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

Bruno Bauer

Author Bio

  • NameBruno Bauer
  • DescriptionGerman philosopher and historian
  • BornSeptember 6, 1809
  • DiedApril 15, 1882
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Theologian; Historian