My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are… — 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
