There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
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 a riddle.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.