Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbachwas a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
imagination miracle power-of-imagination
The power of miracle is the power of imagination.
philosophy sacred theology
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
realization eras tasks
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
ideas long atheism
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.
drinking food eye
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.
kindness men compassion
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.
sacred ruth illusion
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
atheist men agnostic
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.
atheist men agnostic
Man created God in his own image.
religious feelings atheism
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
heart character men
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, love and power of will are perfections of man.
philosophy teaching taken
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.
yesterday today tomorrow
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.
teaching men giving
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. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.