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The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified … for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Many are surprised that this complaint was made in earlier times than our own.

Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

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My only wish is... to transform friends of God into friends of man.

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Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach

Born: July 28, 1804
Died: September 13, 1872
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Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Engels, Richard Wagner, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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