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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 image. Ludwig Feuerbach. Religious, Atheist, Men.
- For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy. Ludwig Feuerbach. Religious, Truth Is, Holy.
- I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. Ludwig Feuerbach. Angel, Devil, Alliances.
- 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 established.
- “As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.” ― Ludwig Feuerbach.
- “I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.” ― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity.
- “Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
- “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 deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life.
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- [T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Ludwig Feuerbach. Ruth, Sacred, Illusion.
- Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats. Ludwig Feuerbach. Men.
- This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance...
- 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 have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
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Der Mensch ist, was er ißt."Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. Butthe good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is alw...On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach, and such authors are the individualities who have great interest for someone who is composing an imaginary construction. They frequently are well informed abo...
Collection of sourced quotations from The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach. Share with your friends the best quotes from The Essence of Christianity.
Quotes. Last Updated September 6, 2023. Religion is the dream of the human mind. Feuerbach’s reasoning in The Essence of Christianity leads him to one conclusion: religion and God himself are...
