Ludwig FeuerbachThinkers

Alienation is the state of man and society where the essence of man is only present to him in the distorted form of a God, which, rather paradoxically given that man created it in the image of his essence, appears to him as an external, pre-existing creator.

Anthropology is that doctrine of man which understands the essence of man only in the encounter with man and nature.

Atheism is the wrongheaded projection into a beyond of ultimate meaning and value because these things, while being discoverable, are blocked in their actualization by existing conditions in the way we have set up the human world.

Atheism is, in practice, the religion of all men. For all men deny their faith by their acts.

God is the mirror of man.

Human nature is an unchanging force within us, unmodified by direct external influences of any kind.

Human nature is reflected in religion, but only incompletely. Love is the key to human nature.

An Individual is possible because we are conscious of our existence as a species among others.

Labor is the essence of human life (creative labor). It involves making the essence of human life into a physical object. The 'objectification of man's species-life.'.

Religion is the dream of the human mind.

Species-being is that species which is capable of being conscious of their species, (and thus sees itself as a collection of individuals and as possessors of consciousness).

The Subject - object is a relationship whereby the subject is logically prior to the object. Thus, people are logically prior to the community.