Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
Ludwig FeuerbachIt 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.
Ludwig FeuerbachTheology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.
Ludwig FeuerbachHe only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
Ludwig FeuerbachWhat yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.
Ludwig Feuerbach"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.
Ludwig Feuerbach