Bruno Bauer Quotes
Bruno Bauer was a German theologian, philosopher, and historian of the early Christian church and one of the leading figures of the Young Hegelian movement in the 1830s and 1840s. Initially a right-wing Hegelian biblical scholar at Bonn, he moved into a radical critical position from which the Gospels appeared as imaginative literary constructions rather than historical reports, a thesis for which he lost his theological teaching license in 1842. The quotes below are attributed to Bruno Bauer, organized by topic.
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Bruno Bauer on Freedom
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Attributed to Bruno Bauer:
“Critique is the laboratory of every emerging epoch.”
Bruno Bauer on God
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Attributed to Bruno Bauer:
“The Gospels are works of literature, not of history.”
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Attributed to Bruno Bauer:
“Religion is the consciousness of self projected as another.”
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“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.”
As quoted in Karl Marx 's "The Jewish Question" by ; as translated in Karl Marx, Frederick Engels : Collected Works (1975) edited by International Publishers
Bruno Bauer on Mind
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Attributed to Bruno Bauer:
“Self-consciousness is the principle of all true criticism.”
Bruno Bauer on Truth
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Attributed to Bruno Bauer:
“What once seemed substance dissolves under careful inquiry.”