Ludwig FeuerbachThe 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 the foundation of h… ▶376HumanityLovePolitics
Ludwig FeuerbachTo theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (1967). Lectures on the essence of religion354PhilosophyTruth
Ludwig FeuerbachMan created God in his own image. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). The Essence of Christianity, p.98, Courier Corporation333Humor
Ludwig FeuerbachWhat yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion. ✨ German socialist philosophy.281Philosophy
Ludwig FeuerbachThe joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). The Essence of Christianity, p.162, Courier Corporation3710Life
Ludwig FeuerbachThe first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.359LovePolitics
Ludwig FeuerbachIs it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man? ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). The Essence of Christianity, p.3, Courier Corporation271Love
Ludwig FeuerbachAs we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.326Reading
Ludwig FeuerbachThe present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacre… ▶263TimeTruth
Ludwig FeuerbachIn the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). The Essence of Christianity, p.2, C… ▶307Love
Ludwig FeuerbachCan any good come out of Nazareth? This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looke… ▶297PoliticsReading
Ludwig FeuerbachIt 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.242Reading
Ludwig FeuerbachI 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… ▶308PhilosophyReadingTruth
Ludwig FeuerbachI would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). The Essence of Christianity, p.155, Courier Corporatio… ▶287Truth
Ludwig Feuerbach[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred277Reflection
Ludwig FeuerbachThe task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach, Manfred H. Vog… ▶278HopeHumanityPhilosophy
Ludwig FeuerbachChristianity 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 … ▶278HopeLifePolitics
Ludwig FeuerbachWherever 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. 225Sadness
Ludwig FeuerbachWhat else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself. ✨ Ludwig Feuerbach (18… ▶2510Politics
Ludwig FeuerbachMy only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of th… ▶194Thought
Ludwig FeuerbachThis 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 s… ▶195Life
Ludwig FeuerbachIf therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion … ▶141HumanityLoveTruth
Ludwig FeuerbachThe power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man. 154LovePoliticsThought
