Man created God 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.

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

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 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.

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?