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Reason Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
- Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the…
- There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that…
- 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 one who has…
- It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
- Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they…
- I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -…
- Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells;…
- Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
- If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed…
- In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was…
- The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is…
- Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific…
- The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
- How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at…
- But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not…
- Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide…
- The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for…
- We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
- The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
- In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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