“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence of the individual. … The natural man remains at home because he finds it agreeable, because he is perfectly satisfied; religion … commences with a discontent, a disunion, forsakes its home and travels far, but only to feel … more vividly in the distance … home. In religion man separates himself from himself, but only to return always to the same point from which he set out [himself]. Man negatives himself, but only to posit himself again, and that in a glorified form: he negatives this life, but only, in the end, to posit it again in the future life.”
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Essence of Christianity
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Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach, a prominent German philosopher born on July 28, 1804, and died on September 13, 1872. He was a significant figure in the German classical philosophy and had a profound impact on the birth of Marxist philosophy. more
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