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

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

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.

Man created God in his own image.

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.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.