It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

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

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

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

"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.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life