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To prove cannot mean anything other than to bring the other person to my own conviction. The truth lies only in the unification of I and You. The Other of pure thought, however, is the sensuous intellect in general. In the field of philosophy, proof therefore consists only in the fact that the contradiction between sensuous intellect and pure thought is disposed, so that thought is true not only for itself but also for its opposite.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
What man calls Absolute Being, his God, is his own being. The power of the object over him is therefore the power of his own being. Thus, the power of the object of feeling is the power of feeling itself; the power of the object of reason is the power of reason itself; and the power of the object of will is the power of will itself.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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 appropriated as just a means, limits and warps the mind for it sets up the indirect and formal thought in the place of the direct, original and material thought.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Hegel … proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. … He does not appeal to the intellect within us.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach