For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work… — 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
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — 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
“Christianity has spiritualised the egoism of Judaism into subjectivity (though … this subjectivity is again expressed as pure egoism), has changed the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Faith discriminates thus: This is true, that is false. And it claims truth to itself alone. Faith has for its object a… — 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
“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
“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 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
“Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of… — 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.… — 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
“Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining… — 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
“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
“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
“Religion has no physical conception of the world; it has no interest in a physical explanation, which can never be given but… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[F]aith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“[F]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in… — 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
“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“A love which is limited by faith is an untrue love. … [L]ove bound by faith … hides in itself the hatred… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[Faith] makes salvation dependent on itself, not on the fulfilment of common human duties. … [I]nwardly morality is subordinate to faith, so… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of 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
“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
![“Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God than duties towards man[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a2/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_character_faith-left-to-itself-exalts-itself-above_1635152.jpg)
![“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the truth and infinity of human feeling. … [F]aith in God is only faith in the abstract nature of man, so faith in the heavenly life is only faith in the abstract earthly life.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/348/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_faith-in-the-future-life-is-faith-in-the_1281258.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)
![“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)
![“[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)
![“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)
![“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)
![“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)
![“[F]aith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species invested with a mystical form, - the separation of God from man is therefore the separation of man from man, the unloosening of the social bond. … Faith isolates God, it…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fc1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_f-aith-separates-god-from-man-consequent_2557150.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)
![“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)
![“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55c/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_clinging-to-self_the-doctrine-of-immortality-is-the-final_2197848.jpg)
![“[F]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in order to enhance the self-complacency of triumphant faith. Hell sweetens the joys of happy believers.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa5/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_f-aith-postulates-a-future-a-world-where_1722947.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)
![“A love which is limited by faith is an untrue love. … [L]ove bound by faith … hides in itself the hatred that belongs to faith; it is only benevolent so long as faith is not injured. … [I]n order to retain the semblance of love, it falls into the most diabolical sophisms, as we see in Augustine's…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d6/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_a-love-which-is-limited-by-faith-is-an-u_3096609.jpg)
![“[Faith] makes salvation dependent on itself, not on the fulfilment of common human duties. … [I]nwardly morality is subordinate to faith, so it must also be outwardly, practically … sacrificed to faith. … [A]ctions which are morally bad, but which according to faith are laudable, because they have…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc7/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_character_faith-makes-salvation-dependent-on-itsel_3005693.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)
![“[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)