Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes

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,...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Lectures on the Essence of Religion - 1851 - Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View.

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But like the desire for eternal life, the desire for omniscience and absolute perfection is merely an imaginary desire; and, as history and daily experience prove, the supposed human striving for...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Lectures on the Essence of Religion - 1851 - Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View.

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Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Lectures on the Essence of Religion - 1851 - Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View.

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God, I have said, is the fulfiller, or the reality, of the human desires for happiness, perfection, and immortality. From this it may be inferred that to deprive man of God is to tear the heart out...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Lectures on the Essence of Religion - 1851 - Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View.

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We have busied ourselves and contented ourselves long enough with speaking and writing; now at last we demand that the word become flesh, the spirit matter; we are as sick of political as we are of...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Lectures on the Essence of Religion - 1851 - Lecture I, Occasion and Context.

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The recognition of the light of reality within the darkness of abstraction is a contradiction – both the affirmation and the negation of the real at one and the same time. The new philosophy,...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Principles of Philosophy of the Future - 1843.

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The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies ultimately in this alone, that it negates theology through philosophy in order then to negate philosophy through theology. Both the beginning and the end are...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Principles of Philosophy of the Future - 1843.

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Pantheism makes God into a present, real, and material being; empiricism – to which rationalism also belongs – makes God into an absent, remote, unreal, and negative being. Empiricism does not...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Principles of Philosophy of the Future - 1843.

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Speculative philosophy as the realisation of God is the positing of God, and at the same time his cancellation or negation; theism and at the same time atheism: for God – in the sense of theology...

Ludwig Feuerbach

Principles of Philosophy of the Future - 1843.

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

Ludwig Feuerbach

The Essence of Christianity - 1841 - Preface.

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