Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes

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.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

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.

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.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Man created God in his own image.

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.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

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.

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

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.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

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.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

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.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

[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.

I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]

[This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot

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.

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman