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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.