Quotes by Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Feuerbach

German philosopher

Lived from: 1804 - 1872

Category: Philosophers Country: Germany

Born: 28 july 1804 Died: 13 september 1872

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• 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.

  ― Ludwig Feuerbach
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• 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.

  ― Ludwig Feuerbach
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• appearance
• necessity
• signified
• original
• illusion

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