Quote: 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. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: The 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 sacred, truth profane. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: If 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 itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: Theology is Anthropology.
[Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.] [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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 the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst]. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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 the self- confession of human sensibility. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: The power of miracle is the power of imagination. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: [T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: The 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. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: The 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 sacred, truth profane. [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: 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 stil [Ludwig Feuerbach]
Quote: Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image. [Ludwig Feuerbach]