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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Ludwig Feuerbach

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Ludwig Feuerbach
Age: 68 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 28
Died: 1872
Died: September 13
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