Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
Ludwig FeuerbachHe only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
Ludwig FeuerbachFaith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
Ludwig FeuerbachThe 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 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