"And without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being....What is sacred for it is only illusion, but what is profane---is truth.
More than that, the sacred grows in its eyes to the extent that truth diminishes and illusion increases, to such an extent that the peak of illusion is for it the peak of the sacred."
--FEUERBACH
