The Ego And His Own - pg. 39

If one should smile compassionately at the whole struggle over a highest essence, as a Christian might at the war of words between a Shiite and a Sunnite or between a Brahman and a Buddhist, then the hypothesis of a highest essence would be null in his eyes, and the conflict on this basis an idle play. Whether then the one God or the three in one, whether the Lutheran God or the etre supreme or not God at all, but "Man," may represent the highest essence, that makes no difference at all for him who denies the highest essence, that makes no difference at all for him who denies the highest essence itself, for in his eyes those servants of a highest essence are one and all - pious people, the most raging atheist not less than the most faith-filled Christian.