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He who makes God act humanly, declares human activity to be divine[.]

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

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

[O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

We are what we eat.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.

God is the mirror of man.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

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

Love determined God to the renunciation of his divinity.

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

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.

[M]an does not stand above this his necessary conception; on the contrary, it stands above him; it animates, determines, governs him.

God does not negative himself in the Incarnation, but he shows himself as that which he is, as a human being.

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

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

Man created God in his own image.

A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

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

The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

We consume the air and we are consumed by it; we enjoy and are enjoyed.

[M]an [has] the power of abstraction from himself[.]

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.

If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject is an anthropomorphism too.

God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.

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

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

Everybody makes his own god(s).

The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free.

[W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.

[I]f thou thinkest the infinite thou perceivest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of thought[.]

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.

[A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]

[T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.

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

If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.]

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

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

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

To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.

[T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject's own nature taken objectively.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.