There have been in all ages philosophers who have had conceptions of the truth.

But ripe to-day, it has become the common property of all who are strong enough to stand it--for, in sooth, this latest religion of humanity is food fit only for the strong.

It carries sadness with it, for it isolates man; but it also involves grandeur, making man absolutely free, or, as it were, a very god.

It leaves him no actual duties except to himself, and it opens a superb field to one of brain and courage.
"The masses still remain, and must ever remain, submissive under the yoke of old, dead religions, and under the tyranny of instincts.
There will still be seen very much the same condition of things as at present in Paris; a society the brain of which is atheistic, and the heart religious.

And at bottom there will be no more belief in Christ than in Jupiter; nevertheless, churches will continue to be built mechanically.