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E senza dubbio il nostro tempo … preferisce l’immagine alla cosa, la copia all’originale, la rappresentazione alla realtà, l’apparenza all’essere… Ciò che per esso è sacro non è che l’illusione ma ciò che è profano è la verità. O meglio il sacro si ingrandisce ai suoi occhi nella misura in cui al decrescere della verità corrisponde il crescere dell’illusione, in modo tale che il colmo dell’illusione è anche il colmo del sacro.
Feurbach, L’essenza del Cristianesimo
But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appeareance to the essence...illusion only is sacred, truth profane, Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be highest degree of sacredness.
Feurbach -Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity
“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence, . . . truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.”
—Feuerbach, Preface to the Second Edition of The Essence of Christianity