“ As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to high… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [I]n love, man declares himself unsatisfied in his individuality taken by itself, he postulates the existence of another as a need of the heart; … the life which he has through love to be the truly hu… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is imp… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth p… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [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. Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feelin… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ 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[.] Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [T]here is no distinction between the predicates of the divine and human nature, and, consequently, no distinction between the divine and human subject … [T]he predicates are not accidents, but expres… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [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 Ludwig Feuerbach
“ Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.] Ludwig Feuerbach
“ The Jewish people trusted thmself to do nothing except that what was commanded by God; they were without will even in external things; the authority of religion extended itself even to their food. The… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ The Jewish people trusted themself to do nothing except that what was commanded by God; they were without will even in external things; the authority of religion extended itself even to their food. Th… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ 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. Ludwig Feuerbach
“ Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself. Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. … [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first found… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, … [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the b… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ The notion that the fulfilment of prayer has been determined from eternity, that it was originally included in the plan of creation, is the empty, absurd fiction of a mechanical mode of thought, which… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ How can the feeling man resist feeling, the loving one love? Who has not experienced the overwhelming power of melody? And what else is melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feelin… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ [This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman Ludwig Feuerbach
