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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.