[37F-TDI: p. 250]
“ ‘Examples of the most glorious and noble deeds of women: (1) The Fall’:
“Eve led Adam astray.” I certainly am not upset by the fact
That she finally pulled the night cap off the head of the pious fool.
‘A motion for a new feast day’:
We should celebrate gratefully the day when
Eve misled Adam, for she only did it out of her love for us.” [37F-TDI: p. 250]
[38F-TDI: p. 250]
“ ‘Examples of the most glorious and noble deeds of women: (2) World-creation and philosophy of nature’:
Maya once drove away the melancholy of the ancient Brahma
So that a depressed person was changed into a creator of the world.” [38F-TDI: p. 250]
Ludwig Feuerbach: The Essence of Christianity (1841)
[39F-EOC: p. xxxix]
“Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendour of imagination and caprice, [arbitrariness] instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.” [39F-EOC: p. xxxix]
[40F-EOC: p. xxxix]
“… in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.” [40F-EOC: p. xxxix]
[41F-EOC: p. 4]
[P. 3] “Music is the [P. 4] language of feeling … .” [41F-EOC: p. 3-4]
[42F-EOC: p. 9]
“What … is it which acts on thee when thou art affected by melody? (…) What else than the voice of thy own heart?” [42F-EOC: p. 9]
