Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.