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Ludwig Feuerbach
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Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones.
— As quoted in "Voices of the New Time" as translated by C. C. Shackford in The Radical Vol. 7 (1870), p. 329
Ludwig Feuerbach
German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)
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He flipped theology inside out: God, Feuerbach argued in 1841, is humanity's own best qualities projected onto a screen and then worshipped. That inversion — religion as self-alienation — cut the ground from under idealism and cleared the path for Marx.
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The son of a distinguished jurist, Feuerbach studied theology at Heidelberg before moving to Berlin to study under Hegel. His academic career ended in 1830 when his anonymously published Thoughts on Death and Immortality was condemned for attacking personal immortality, barring him from university posts. He spent the rest of his life in rural isolation, supported by his wife's share in a porcelain factory, and there produced his major works. His philosophy developed as a critique of Hegel's speculative idealism, which he saw as theology in its most abstract form, inverting the true relationshi…
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Ludwig Feuerbach
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Religion is the dream of the human mind.
— Preface to Second Edition (1843)
Ludwig Feuerbach
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I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
— The Essence of Christianity (1841)
Ludwig Feuerbach
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Demonstrating is therefore only the means through which I strip my thought of the form of “mine-ness” so that the other person may recognize it as his own.
— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 66
Ludwig Feuerbach
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Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral or written, is to be taken and can only be taken in the sense of a means.
— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67
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