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The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Ludwig Feuerbach
Joy, Intellectual, Pleasure
Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.162, Courier Corporation

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Atheist, Justice, Example

This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Drinking, Food, Eye

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Philosophy, Teaching, Taken
"The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

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.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Ideas, Long, Atheism

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Ludwig Feuerbach
Ruth, Sacred, Illusion

Theology 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 Feuerbach
Made, Distinction, Anthropology
Ludwig Feuerbach (1893). “The Essence of Christianity”

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Self, Soul, Poison
Ludwig Feuerbach (1855). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.90

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Men, Data, Goal

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Ludwig Feuerbach
Feelings, Language, Music Is
Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.3

"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
Knowing, Different, Obscurity
"The Radical". Book by C. C. Shackford, vol. 7, p. 329, 1870.

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