- Lived:
- 1804–1872 · Bavaria, Germany — Landshut, Berlin, a castle at Bruckberg, and finally a poor cottage near Nuremberg
- Tradition:
- Post-Hegelian German philosophy; the boldest of the Young Hegelians; humanist materialism
- The Big Idea:
- Religion is humanity's own essence projected onto the sky — when you study God, you are really studying a portrait of the human being who painted him.
- In their words:
- "Religion is the dream of the human mind."
- If you remember one thing:
- Feuerbach turned theology into a mirror: every quality we worship in heaven — reason, love, justice — is a human quality we gave away, and philosophy's job is to hand the treasure back.