The Essence of Christianity
Ludwig Feuerbach
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
“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.”
“The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.”
“The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.”
“[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred”
“The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life”
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
“[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.”
“A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.”
“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 profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.”
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