To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]
[L]et it be remembered that atheism … is the secret of religion … ; religion … in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future
[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman
Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]
[This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot
I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]
[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.