Leszek Kolakowski Quotes on God
Leszek Kolakowski was a Polish philosopher and the most influential critic of Marxism from within the Marxist tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Leszek Kolakowski on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Leszek Kolakowski:
“Religion remains one of the most fundamental of human cultures.”
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“Totalitarianism and the Virtue of the Lie", as quoted in Is God Happy? Selected Essays (2013), Basic Books, p. 57”
The destructive work of totalitarian machinery, whether or not this word is used, is usually supported by a special kind of primitive social philosophy. It proclaims not only that the common good of ' society ' has priority over the interests of individuals, but that the very existence of individuals as persons is reducible to the existence of the social 'whole'; in other words, personal existence -
“In this sense Marxism performs the function of a religion, and its efficacy is of a religious character. But it is a caricature and a bogus form of religion, since it presents its temporal eschatology as a scientific system, which religious mythologies do not purport to be.”
Main Currents Of Marxism(1978) | Epilogue, p. 1208 -
“"The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture" (1973)”
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