“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
“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 heavenly life is no other than that which is, already here below, distinguished from the merely natural life … That which… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — 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
“[I]n love, man declares himself unsatisfied in his individuality taken by itself, he postulates the existence of another as a need of… — 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
“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 imagination identifies … the external God with the soul of man. The imagination is … the true place of an existence… — 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
“[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
“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
“Real, sensational existence is that which is not dependent on my own mental spontaneity or activity … But God is not seen,… — 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
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
“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“If I know not now what and how I shall be; if there is an essential, absolute difference between my future and… — 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
“According to Philo, God gave Moses power over the whole of Nature; all the elements obeyed him as the Lord of Nature.… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this… — 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
“[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
“[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
