Quick Facts About Ludwig Feuerbach
- Born
- July 28, 1804
- Died
- September 13, 1872
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Profession
- Anthropologist
- Notable works
- Essence of Christianity
- Known for
- The Essence of Christianity, Thoughts on Death and Immortality
- Spouse
- Bertha Löw
About Ludwig Feuerbach
He argued that God is a projection of human qualities, critiqued religion, and his ideas helped link Hegel’s philosophy to Marx’s.
![“The true Christian not only feels no need of culture, because this is a worldly principle and opposed to feeling; he also has no need of (natural) love. … God supplies to him the want of love, of a wife, of a family. … [T]he man who does not deny his manhood, is conscious that he is only part of a…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_the-true-christian-not-only-feels-no-nee_1147387.png)
![“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the rapturous prospect and hope of heaven … (for whatever heaven may be for them, so long as they were on earth, it existed only in the imagination); … a principle to which men…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b2/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_l-et-any-one-transport-himself-to-the-ti_1428605.png)
![“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/i/74e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_christianity_it-is-only-in-the-mode-in-which-faith-em_1471605.png)
![“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/i/484/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_darkness_to-the-religious-spirit-god-alone-is-the_2423032.png)
![“[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/i/fc1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_f-aith-separates-god-from-man-consequent_2557150.png)