Hermann Cohen: Quotes about ideas and thoughts

Hermann Cohen was German philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on idea.

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“Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God.”

Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5

“As faith in mankind, Israel's faith is hope. And it is this epitome of Israel's prophetism, this hope in mankind's future, that comprises the substance of the messianic idea.”

Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 124

“Ethics must not remain a lovely abstraction; it must be concretized into valid truth. At this point ethics joins forces with religion because ethics too has ultimately no other recourse but to hypothesize the idea of God: not for the personal redemption of the moral individual but as a guarantee for the eventual realization of morality in this world.”

Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 122