As interpreters of our experiences. – One kind of honesty has been unknown to all founders of religions and their like – they have never made of their experiences a matter of conscience for knowledge. ‘What did I really experience? What happened in me and around me then? Was my mind sufficiently alert? Was my will bent against fantasy?’ – none of them has asked such questions, none of our dear religious people asks such questions even now: they feel, rather, a thirst for things which are contrary to reason and do not put too many difficulties in the way of satisfying it
Nietzsche lashes out against the self deception of religious leaders
