What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

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