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

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

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Man created God 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.

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.