Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ludwig Feuerbach:
“What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today.”
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“As quoted in "Voices of the New Time" as translated by C. C. Shackford in The Radical Vol. 7 (1870), p. 329”
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 something different from what is expected. Everything new is received with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved. -
“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. 54 -
“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.”
The Essence of Christianity(1841) -
“The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.”
Towards a Critique ofHegel’sPhilosophy (1839) | Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68