Ernst Bloch Quotes on God
Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher and one of the most original utopian thinkers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ernst Bloch on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“Where there is hope, there is also religion.”
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“Atheismus im Christentum 1968, english translation: Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom 1972”
Only an atheist can be a good Christian. -
“How absurd it must seem for an immortal soul to be destined for Heaven or Hell, and yet be sitting in a kitchen, as a maid, or to see oneself objectified as a mechanic! how falsely the usual sunrise waked us, the clock dial, the city street the job! How wrongfully people find themselves in these systems — our time isn't there, our space isn't there, our space isn't even here... the whole social story of waking, and certainly the day of the mechanic, is false.”
Traces (1930), p. 27 -
“The soul must accept guilt in order to destroy existing evil, lest it incur the greater guilt of idyllic withdrawal, of seeming to be good by putting up with wrong. p. 36”
Aber es steht doch in der Regel so, daß die Seele schuldig werden muß, um das schlecht Bestehende zu vernichten, um nicht durch idyllischen Rückzug, scheingute Duldung des Unrechts noch schuldiger zu werden .