“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
“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 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
“[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
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” — 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
“God is love:' this, … supreme dictum of Christianity, … expresses the certainty which human feeling has of itself, … that 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“[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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man? — 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, enrapturing to… — 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 … But God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
"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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
