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The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it. 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.” As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. “The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.”
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.” The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.
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