Bruno Bauer

“The Christian state knows only privileges.”

“The real emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.”

“Freedom is the real and only truth of the Spirit.”

“The Gospels are not historical records, but works of art.”

“The general consciousness is always ahead of the particular consciousness of the individual, and it is only because the individual suspends his own that he is able to enter into the general.”

“What is now the general temporal consciousness is the same as what was formerly the particular religious consciousness.”

“Criticism is not a passion of the head, but the head of a passion.”

“The historical problem is the conflict between the individual and the general.”

“Hegel is the real founder of the philosophy of religion.”