Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes

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• It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own…
• Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and…
• The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this…
• The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...…
• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I…
• I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
• Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it…
• The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason,…
• The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
• If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is…
• To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
• The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life
• In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
• My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the…
• Man created God in his own image.
• What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating…
• The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare…
• Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?
• "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes…
• Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth,…

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