Reason Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It goes to reason if you always on the reasons go.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche