Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith in the real annihilation of the world - … a world antagonistic to the wishes of the Christian is therefore a… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“God is love:' this, … supreme dictum of Christianity, … expresses the certainty which human feeling has of itself, … that the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[M]arriage is not holy in Christianity; … an unholy thing … excluded from heaven. … Where his heaven is, there is his… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Because of … this concentration of all that is universal and real in one personal being, God is a deeply moving object,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The idea of man as a species, and with it the significance of the life of the species, of humanity as a… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The salvation of the soul is the fundamental idea, the main point in Christianity; … this salvation lies only in God …… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“In Christianity … morality is even made the criterion of piety; but ethics have nevertheless a subordinate rank, they have not in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The God of the Christians is indeed the God of the heathens, but with a wide difference … The Christians know God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“It is only in the mode in which faith embodies itself that Christians differ from the followers of other religions. … [T]he… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man? — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“Because of … this concentration of all that is universal and real in one personal being, God is a deeply moving object, enrapturing to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“The salvation of the soul is the fundamental idea, the main point in Christianity; … this salvation lies only in God … But God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“[T]o think God is therefore to affirm what God is, to establish the being of God as an act. That God is thought, cognised,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal;… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“[H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“In Christianity … morality is even made the criterion of piety; but ethics have nevertheless a subordinate rank, they have not in themselves a… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right in imputing… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“The heavenly life is no other than that which is, already here below, distinguished from the merely natural life … That which the Christian… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
“[T]he religious expression is: Man is the image of God, or a being akin to God; - for according to religion man does not… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share
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![“Faith in the real annihilation of the world - … a world antagonistic to the wishes of the Christian is therefore a phenomenon belonging to the inmost essence of Christianity[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c3/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_annihilation_faith-in-the-real-annihilation-of-the-wo_1548207.png)
![“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/314/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_agnosticism_t-he-present-age-which-prefers-the-sign_596713.png)
![“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a66/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_in-place-of-the-classic-spirit-entered-w_1972749.jpg)
![“In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe, he made himself a self-sufficing whole, … [H]e no longer regarded himself as being immanent in the world, because he severed himself from connection with it[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/962/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_in-christianity-man-was-concentrated-onl_2059879.png)
![“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_abrahamism_as-israel-made-the-wants-of-his-national_31284.jpg)
![“[M]arriage is not holy in Christianity; … an unholy thing … excluded from heaven. … Where his heaven is, there is his heart, - heaven is his heart laid open. Heaven is nothing but the idea of the true, the good, the valid, - of that which ought to be; earth, nothing but the idea of the untrue, the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a44/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_m-arriage-is-not-holy-in-christianity-an_3162555.jpg)
![“It is only in the mode in which faith embodies itself that Christians differ from the followers of other religions. … [T]he nature of faith … is everywhere the same. … All blessings … it accumulates on itself … ; all curses, all hardship and evil it casts on unbelief. … [F]or what God rejects man…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_christianity_it-is-only-in-the-mode-in-which-faith-em_1471605.png)
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