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...
joy intellectual pleasure
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life
atheism sun there-is-no-god
It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.
men
Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?
book men circles
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
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.