But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. Ludwig Feuerbach
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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Graham Greene
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
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Stephen King
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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Jostein Gaarder
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
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Ray Bradbury
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Graham Greene
More Quotes By Ludwig Feuerbach
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
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...
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his...
Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
