For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

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

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

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.

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

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