“The salvation of the soul is the fundamental idea, the main point in Christianity; … this salvation lies only in God …… — 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
“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
“The true Christian not only feels no need of culture, because this is a worldly principle and opposed to feeling; he also… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“God is love:' this, … supreme dictum of Christianity, … expresses the certainty which human feeling has of itself, … that the… — 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
“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
“[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
“[T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to… — 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 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
“[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
“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
“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
“In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe,… — 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
“God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of 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
