# Nietzsche
"Alas, my brothers, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all gods'".

"Let will to truth mean this to you: that everything be changed into the humanly conceivable, the humanly visible, the humanly sensible."

"What you called 'the world' shall be created only by you: it shall be your reason, your image, your will, your love."

"Neither into the incomprehensible could you have been born, nor into the irrational."

"If there were gods, how could I endure not being a god! Therefore, there are no gods."

# Hegel
"The mention of a totally abstract universal is sufficient to counter the equally abstract pronouncement that restriction cannot be transcended, or, again, the mention of the infinite in general is sufficient to counter the pronouncement that the finite cannot be transcended."

Though it seems different, this is very much like the manoeuver used by Marx to evade questioning about the ontology of man that he insists upon.

Hegel claims that to believe in a transcendental God means to believe in an entity which is so absolute that there cannot be anything external to it; in accepting this proclamation, one must also accept that one is themselves the substance of the divine.

Marx, similarly, makes the claim that Man is the creator of Man and Nature, that these things are inseparable, and that the question of the Ionian regress is inadmissible. 

He preempts the possibility of his being questioned by claiming that one cannot question the origin of Man from nature, nor of the conditions for the first man, because one one cannot abstract themselves apart from nature without supposing their own non-existence.