“Man is what he eats.”

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Der Mensch ist, was er ißt.
Die Naturwissenschaft und die Revolution [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt http://books.google.com/books?id=QYINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 [The Mystery of Sacrifice, or Man is What He Eats] (1862)

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Der Mensch ist, was er isst.

Zuerst in Feuerbachs Aufsatz: Die Naturwissenschaft und die Revolution in: Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung, November 1850, S. 1082 slub-dresden.de https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/90281/1100/0/ rechts unten unter Bezug auf Jacob Moleschott: Lehre der Nahrungsmittel (1850), S. 101 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=mJw_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA101: "Die Speisen werden zu Blut, das Blut zu Herz und Hirn, zu Gedanken und Gesinnungsstoff. Menschliche Kost ist die Grundlage menschlicher Bildung und Gesinnung. Wollt ihr das Volk bessern, so gebt ihm statt Deklamationen gegen die Sünde bessere Speisen. Der Mensch ist was er isst. Wer nur Pflanzenkost geniesst, ist auch nur ein vegetirendes Wesen, hat keine Thatkraft."
1862 sodann Titel und Gegenstand des Aufsatzes: Das Geheimnis des Opfers oder Der Mensch ist, was er ißt, in: Gesammelte Werke 11, Kleinere Schriften IV, Akademie-Verlag Belin, S. 26 ff. books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=u5BsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26

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