“The more man alienates himself from Nature, the more subjective, i.e., supranatural or antinatural, is his view of things, the greater the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the… — 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
“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
“[T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[M]an … makes Nature merely the servant of his will and needs, and … degrades it to a mere machine, a product… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The unwedded and ascetic life is the direct way to the heavenly, immortal life, for heaven is nothing else than life liberated… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long… — 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
“[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
“The true Christian not only feels no need of culture, because this is a worldly principle and opposed to feeling; he also… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The religious man renounces the joys of this world, but only that he may win in return the joys of heaven; …… — 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
“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
“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence… — 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
“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He… — 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
![“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the truth and infinity of human feeling. … [F]aith in God is only faith in the abstract nature of man, so faith in the heavenly life is only faith in the abstract earthly life.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/348/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_faith-in-the-future-life-is-faith-in-the_1281258.png)
![“[T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to the totality of the species.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/62c/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-christians-abolished-the-distinctio_1463576.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)
![“[T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of the world … is not taken in its real sense.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87d/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-effect-of-the-creation-all-its-maje_2517540.png)
![“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged limits of the species were only limits of individuals. … [S]triking proofs of this are presented by the history of philosophy and … physical science. … Thus the species is unlimited; the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f80/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_my-life-is-bound-not-so-the-life-of-huma_1222401.png)
![“[M]an … makes Nature merely the servant of his will and needs, and … degrades it to a mere machine, a product of the will. … [I]ts existence is intelligible to him, … he explains and interprets it out of himself, in accordance with his own feelings and notions.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/458/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_m-an-makes-nature-merely-the-servant-of_3060668.png)
![“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no grappling point to thought, … a baseless air-built doctrine, originated solely … to give warrant to … egoism, which … expresses nothing but the command to make Nature – not an…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e1b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-creation-out-of-nothing-is-no-objec_1722295.png)
![“[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)
![“The true Christian not only feels no need of culture, because this is a worldly principle and opposed to feeling; he also has no need of (natural) love. … God supplies to him the want of love, of a wife, of a family. … [T]he man who does not deny his manhood, is conscious that he is only part of a…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/44e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_the-true-christian-not-only-feels-no-nee_1147387.png)
![“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the rapturous prospect and hope of heaven … (for whatever heaven may be for them, so long as they were on earth, it existed only in the imagination); … a principle to which men…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b2/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_l-et-any-one-transport-himself-to-the-ti_1428605.png)
![“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical contradiction, the dogmatic contradiction of the Virgin Mother. … [T]his wondrous union of virginity and maternity, contradicting Nature and reason, but in the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/27e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-contradiction-in-catholicism-that-a_1485857.png)
![“To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in itself: … the question, Why does it exist? does not arise. … Nature, as it impresses his senses, has indeed had an origin, has been produced, but not created in the religious sense, … [H]e…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c8/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_to-him-who-feels-that-nature-is-lovely-i_1346912.png)
![“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)
![“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within, that here … he may find audience for his griefs. Here he utters his oppressive secrets; … he gives vent to stifled sighs.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4df/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_n-ature-listens-not-to-the-plaints-of-ma_2060711.png)