[132F-EOC: p. 242]
“Faith is the power of the imagination, which makes the real unreal, and the unreal real: in direct contradiction with the truth of the senses, with the truth of reason.” [132F-EOC: p. 242]
[133F-EOC: p. 246]
“In general, wherever religion places itself in contradiction with reason, it places itself also in contradiction with the moral sense. Only with the sense of truth coexists the sense of the right and good. Depravity of understanding is always depravity of heart. He who deludes and cheats his understanding has not a veracious, honourable heart; sophistry corrupts the whole man.” [133F-EOC: p. 246]
[134F-EOC: p. 247]
“Faith makes belief in its God a law: love is freedom, - it condemns not even the atheist, because it is itself atheistic, itself denies … the existence of a particular, individual God, opposed to man.” [134F-EOC: p. 247]
[135F-EOC: p. 257]
“Faith is the opposite of love. Love recognizes virtue even in sin, truth in error.” [135F-EOC: p. 257]
[136F-EOC: p. 257]
“ … love is reconcilable with reason alone, not with faith; for as reason, so also love is free, universal, in its nature, whereas faith is narrow-hearted, limited.” [136F-EOC: p. 257]
[137F-EOC: p. 262]
“It is not to be denied that the assurance of eternal salvation, the forgiveness of sins, the sense of favour and release from all punishment, inclines man to do good. … he becomes indifferent to the good things of this world; no envy, no avarice, no ambition, no sensual desire, can enslave him … . But in him good works do not proceed from essentially virtuous dispositions. (…) No! he does good not for the sake of goodness itself, not for the sake of man, but for the sake of God; - out of gratitude to God, who has done all for him … . The idea of virtue is here the idea of compensatory sacrifice.” [137F-EOC: p. 262]
[138F-EOC: p. 268]
“Love is the subjective reality of the species, as reason is its objective reality.” [138F-EOC: p. 268]
