“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
“[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
“[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
“God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart. … Christ… — 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
“Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of… — 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
“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
“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 essential act of religion … is prayer. Prayer is all-powerful. … God is to [the pious soul] … the immediate, efficient… — 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
“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 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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“[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
“[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
“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
“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
![“[T]he religious expression is: Man is the image of God, or a being akin to God; - for according to religion man does not spring from Nature, but is of divine race, of divine origin. … According to this, God is the father of man, man the son, the child of God. Here is posited at once the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25a/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_father_t-he-religious-expression-is-man-is-the_470774.jpg)
![“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no grappling point to thought, … a baseless air-built doctrine, originated solely … to give warrant to … egoism, which … expresses nothing but the command to make Nature – not an…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e1b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-creation-out-of-nothing-is-no-objec_1722295.jpg)
![“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a66/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_in-place-of-the-classic-spirit-entered-w_1972749.jpg)
![“Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_faith-in-the-power-of-prayer-is-faith-in_866518.jpg)
![“[P]rayer is the … certainty that the power of the heart is greater than the power of Nature, … Prayer is the absolute relation of the human heart to itself, to its own nature; in prayer, man forgets that there exists a limit to his wishes, and is happy in this forgetfulness.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f7b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-prayer-to_p-rayer-is-the-certainty-that-the-power_1961741.jpg)
![“Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One day there will be no Nature, no matter, no body, at least none such as to separate man from God: then there will be only God[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e0/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_apart_nature-is-precisely-what-separates-man-f_2286469.jpg)
![“The essential act of religion … is prayer. Prayer is all-powerful. … God is to [the pious soul] … the immediate, efficient cause of all natural effects. … He has recourse to prayer in the certainty that he can do more, infinitely more, by prayer, than by all the efforts of reason and all the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a80/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_miracles_the-essential-act-of-religion-is-prayer_2133324.jpg)
![“To the religious spirit … God alone is the cause of all positive effects … [I]t solves … most … questions always with the same answer, making all the operations of Nature … operations of God, … God is the idea which supplies the lack of theory. … The explanation of the inexplicable - which…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/484/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_darkness_to-the-religious-spirit-god-alone-is-the_2423032.jpg)
![“It is only in the mode in which faith embodies itself that Christians differ from the followers of other religions. … [T]he nature of faith … is everywhere the same. … All blessings … it accumulates on itself … ; all curses, all hardship and evil it casts on unbelief. … [F]or what God rejects man…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_christianity_it-is-only-in-the-mode-in-which-faith-em_1471605.jpg)
![“To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in itself: … the question, Why does it exist? does not arise. … Nature, as it impresses his senses, has indeed had an origin, has been produced, but not created in the religious sense, … [H]e…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c8/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_to-him-who-feels-that-nature-is-lovely-i_1346912.jpg)
![“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical contradiction, the dogmatic contradiction of the Virgin Mother. … [T]his wondrous union of virginity and maternity, contradicting Nature and reason, but in the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_t-he-contradiction-in-catholicism-that-a_1485857.jpg)
![“The general premiss of … belief is: man of himself can know nothing of God; all his knowledge is merely vain, earthly, human. … God is known only by himself. Thus we know nothing of God; for revelation is the word of God … [I]n revelation man … places revelation in opposition to human knowledge ……” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/caf/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_the-general-premiss-of-belief-is-man-of_1828505.jpg)
![“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb8/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_the-essence-of-faith-is-the-idea-that-th_247786.jpg)
![“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within, that here … he may find audience for his griefs. Here he utters his oppressive secrets; … he gives vent to stifled sighs.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4df/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_n-ature-listens-not-to-the-plaints-of-ma_2060711.jpg)
![“[M]an … makes Nature merely the servant of his will and needs, and … degrades it to a mere machine, a product of the will. … [I]ts existence is intelligible to him, … he explains and interprets it out of himself, in accordance with his own feelings and notions.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/458/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_m-an-makes-nature-merely-the-servant-of_3060668.jpg)
![“[I]t implies great force of subjectivity to accept as certain something in contradiction with rational, normal experience. … Wishes own no restraint, no law, no time; they would be fulfilled without delay on the instant. And behold! miracle is as rapid as a wish is impatient. … [I]t is not in its…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/51f/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_miracle_i-t-implies-great-force-of-subjectivity_3004418.jpg)
![“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_abrahamism_as-israel-made-the-wants-of-his-national_31284.jpg)
![“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it appeals not to reason, but to feeling, … to the passions of hope and fear. … [T]he fear of hell urges me to believe. Even supposing my belief to be in its origin free…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_religion-annexes-to-its-doctrines-a-curs_35960.jpg)
![“[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, is essential; that this tree is thought, is to the tree accidental, unessential. … [H]ow is it possible that God – if he is to exist for us, to be an object to us – must…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef5/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_quote_t-o-think-god-is-therefore-to-affirm-wha_219124.jpg)
![“[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 are men, there gods[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a6/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_clinging-to-self_h-eavenly-personality-or-the-perpetuatio_340334.jpg)
![“[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 to it the horrible actions resulting from dogmatic creeds; those deeds nevertheless at the same time contradict Christianity…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ab/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_accepting-love_a-lthough-the-deeds-opposed-to-love-whic_414411.jpg)