Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes on Knowledge
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German anthropological philosopher and one of the most influential of the Young Hegelians. This page collects quotes attributed to Ludwig Feuerbach on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Der Mensch ist, was er ißt.”
Man is what he eats. | Die Naturwissenschaft und die Revolution [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt [ The Mystery of Sacrifice, or Man is What He Eats ] (1862) -
“Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 54”
Hegel determines and presents only the most striking differences of various religions, philosophies, time and peoples, and in a progressive series of stages, but he ignores all that is common and identical in all of them. … His system knows only subordination and succession; coordination and coexistence are unknown to it. -
“Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 66”
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. 67”
Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral or written, is to be taken and can only be taken in the sense of a means. Every system is only an expression or image of reason, and hence only an object of reason, an object which reason—a living power that procreates itself in new thinking beings—distinguishes from itself and posits as an object of criticism. Every system that is not recognized and