“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
“[T]he religious expression is: Man is the image of God, or a being akin to God; - for according to religion man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“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 power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Israel is the historical definition of the specific nature of the religious consciousness, save only that here this consciousness was circumscribed by… — 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 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
“God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart. … Christ… — 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
“[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
“[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
“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
“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate… — 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
“[P]rayer is the … certainty that the power of the heart is greater than the power of Nature, … Prayer is the… — 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
“[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
“The essential act of religion … is prayer. Prayer is all-powerful. … God is to [the pious soul] … the immediate, efficient… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“To the religious spirit … God alone is the cause of all positive effects … [I]t solves … most … questions always… — 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, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[I]t implies great force of subjectivity to accept as certain something in contradiction with rational, normal experience. … Wishes own no restraint,… — 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
“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
