“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not.… — 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… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]” — 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
“The revelation of God is a determinate revelation, given at a particular epoch: God revealed himself once and for all in the… — 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
“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
“Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[F]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith gives man a peculiar sense of his own dignity … The believer finds himself distinguished above other men, exalted above natural… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The general premiss of … belief is: man of himself can know nothing of God; all his knowledge is merely vain, earthly,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith discriminates thus: This is true, that is false. And it claims truth to itself alone. Faith has for its object a… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith in a written revelation is a real, unfeigned, and so far respectable faith, only where it is believed that all in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[F]aith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species… — 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
“[I]f the Lord's Supper effects nothing, consequently is nothing, … without a certain state of mind, without faith, then in faith alone… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[Faith] makes salvation dependent on itself, not on the fulfilment of common human duties. … [I]nwardly morality is subordinate to faith, so… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Religion is a dream, in which our own conceptions and emotions appear to us as separate existences, beings out of ourselves. The… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“A love which is limited by faith is an untrue love. … [L]ove bound by faith … hides in itself the hatred… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — 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
