James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. Feuerbach
Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch ohne Wille—A man without understanding is also a man without will or purpose. 1 Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen ) origin. 2 Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege und zehn in der Irre, gleich dem Ulysses—Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering. 3 In the perishable petals of the flower there resides more spirit and life than in the lumpish granite boulder that has defied the tear and wear of thousands of years. 4 The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. 5 Theology is anthropology. 6 To know life we must detach ourselves from life. 7 Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern—To know life, a man must separate himself from life. 8
