Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Religious, Feelings, Atheism

  29 Copy quote

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

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheist, Justice, Example

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Drinking, Food, Eye

  33 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

  "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

  26 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Ideas, Long, Atheism

  26 Copy quote

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

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Ruth, Sacred, Illusion

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Made, Distinction, Anthropology

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1893). “The Essence of Christianity”

  19 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Self, Soul, Poison

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1855). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.90

  7 Copy quote

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

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Data, Goal

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Feelings, Language, Music Is

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.3

  6 Copy quote

• "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Knowing, Different, Obscurity

  "The Radical". Book by C. C. Shackford, vol. 7, p. 329, 1870.

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin