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.

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.

Man cannot get beyond his true nature. He may indeed by means of the imagination conceive individuals of another so-called higher kind, but he can never get loose from his species, his nature; the conditions of being, the positive final predicates which he gives to these other individuals, are always determinations or qualities drawn from his own nature – qualities in which he in truth only images and projects himself.

Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.

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

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life.

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.

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

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

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.