“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.” LongIdeasReasonFactsChristianityAtheismMankindPositive AtheismFixed Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.” SunClearAtheismPositive AtheismEvidentThere Is No God Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.” NeedsHumansFeelingsReligiousHuman BeingsAtheismPositive AtheismEthical Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.” CausesAtheismIllusionBoundsPositive Atheism Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“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.” RealityAgeAtheismIllusionEssenceOriginalsSacredAppearancePositive AtheismThese DaysFancyCopiesProfane Book:The essence of Christianity Source: The essence of Christianity
“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.” IfsBelieveHumansHeartSecretAtheismHuman NatureNegativeEssenceIntentionPositive AtheismSurfaceRememberedDivinityAtheisticSupposition Book:The essence of Christianity Source: The essence of Christianity
“Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.” MindHumansRealDreamRealityEarthReligionHeavenImaginationSimpleAtheismPositive AtheismRealmsEmptinessHuman MindReal ThingsDaylightSplendorCaprice Book:The essence of Christianity Source: The essence of Christianity
