The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

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

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

Man created God in his own image.

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

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.