Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.

'[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convince…

It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes …

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ...Sometimes he makes us live.

With respect to the theological view of the question: This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically, but I own that …