It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare is the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the profound impact of food on human culture, health, and ethics.
Ludwig Feuerbach's quote highlights the vital connection between food and the foundation of human existence. He argues that the quality and nature of what we consume influence not only our physical well-being but also our thoughts, culture, and societal structure. By nurturing individuals with better food, we can foster a more enlightened and improved society, as he famously concludes that 'man is what he eats.'
Themes
FoodCultureEthicsNutritionSociety
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community wellness, one might say, 'As Feuerbach eloquently stated, man is what he eats, highlighting the importance of nutrition in improving our society.'
More from Ludwig Feuerbach
All quotes →The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.
Ludwig FeuerbachRead
Similar quotes
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. GardnerRead
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
C. S. LewisRead
Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
Pearl S. BuckRead
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John BetjemanRead
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
P. D. JamesRead
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
Thomas JeffersonRead