123 Quotes by Ludwig Feuerbach

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

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

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.

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.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

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

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.

Man created God in his own image.

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