The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
Ludwig FeuerbachMan first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
Ludwig FeuerbachIn the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
Ludwig FeuerbachIt is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.
Ludwig FeuerbachIf 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.
Ludwig Feuerbach