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 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.

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.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred