The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.