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

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

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

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.