The deepest secrets are to be found in the simplest natural things, but, pining away for the Beyond, the speculative fantasy treads them under his feet. The only source of salvation lies in a return to nature.
A religion preserves itself only so long as it is preserved in its original meaning and intention….The place of belief has been taken by unbelief and that of the Bible by reason. Similarly, religion and the Church have been replaced by politics, the heaven by earth, prayer by work, hell by material need, and the Christian by man.
…For God is nothing other than the archetypal and ideal image of man; what God is and how he is, is what man ought to be or wants to be, or at least hopes to be in the future.
– Feuerbach