The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

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.

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.

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