Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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.
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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.
