Top 74 Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes
#1. If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject is an anthropomorphism too.
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#2. In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
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#3. 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.
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#4. It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.
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#5. He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
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#6. [O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]
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#7. It is not I, but religion that worships man, although religion, or rather theology, denies this; it is not I, an insignificant individual, but religion itself that says: God is man, man is God
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#8. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
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#9. 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.
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#10. [I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.
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#11. In breathing I am an object of the air, the air the subject; but when I make the air an object of thought, of investigation, when I analyse it, I reverse the relation - I make myself the subject, the air an object.
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#12. The understanding is universal, pantheistic, the love of the universe; but the grand characteristic of religion, and of the Christian religion especially, is that it is thoroughly anthropotheistic, the exclusive love of man for himself, the exclusive self-affirmation of the human nature.
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#13. [T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]
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#15. [T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]
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#16. Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.
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#17. I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future
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#18. [A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]
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#19. [H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. [M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.
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#23. To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
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#24. [T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject's own nature taken objectively.
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#25. Israel is the historical definition of the specific nature of the religious consciousness, save only that here this consciousness was circumscribed by the limits of a particular, national interest. Hence, we need only let these limits fall, and we have the Christian religion.
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#26. 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.
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#27. God is the reason expressing, affirming itself as the highest existence. To the imagination, the reason is the revelation of God; but to the reason, God is the revelation of the reason[.]
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#28. God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.
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#29. He who makes God act humanly, declares human activity to be divine[.]
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#30. 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.
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#32. Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
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#33. That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.
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#34. A word is an abstract image, the imaginary thing, or, in so far as everything is ultimately an object of the thinking power, it is the imagined thought: hence men, when they know the word, the name for a thing, fancy that they know the thing also.
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#35. We consume the air and we are consumed by it; we enjoy and are enjoyed.
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#36. 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.
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#37. [M]an does not stand above this his necessary conception; on the contrary, it stands above him; it animates, determines, governs him.
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#38. The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences.
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#39. The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.
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#41. [W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.
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#42. [I]f thou thinkest the infinite thou perceivest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of thought[.]
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#43. 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.
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#46. Existence is one with self-consciousness; existence with self-consciousness is existence simply. If I do not know that I exist, it is all one whether I exist or not.
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#47. If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.]
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#48. Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?
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#49. What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.
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#50. [T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to the totality of the species.
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#51. Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
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#52. Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.
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#53. Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
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#54. The unwedded and ascetic life is the direct way to the heavenly, immortal life, for heaven is nothing else than life liberated from the conditions of the species, supernatural, sexless, absolutely subjective life.
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#55. The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life
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#56. I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
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#57. [T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.
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#58. A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.
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#59. God does not negative himself in the Incarnation, but he shows himself as that which he is, as a human being.
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#60. The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]
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#61. Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
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#64. 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.
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#65. What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
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#67. To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.
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#68. The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.
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#69. [T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
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#70. [W]hile you believe in and construct your supra- and extra-natural God, you believe in and construct nothing else than the supra- and extra-naturalism of your own self.
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#71. The more man alienates himself from Nature, the more subjective, i.e., supranatural or antinatural, is his view of things, the greater the horror he has of Nature, or at least of those natural objects and processes which displease his imagination, which affect him disagreeably.
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#73. To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.
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