Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.