Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

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

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

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

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

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

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