Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

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

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

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

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

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.