Conscience

The calorie-free of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the erstwhile requires no greater effort than to open up the latter. ~ Alexandre Vinet

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least caste, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every human a conscience then? ~ Henry David Thoreau

Persons with feeble and untrained intellects may alive according to their censor; but the censor itself volition be defective. … To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is adequately recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to organized religion, volition inevitably autumn. ~ William Winwood Reade

Censor is the capacity to recognize whether one's actions are correct or wrong.

A [edit]

• Oh! call up what anxious moments pass between
  The birth of plots, and their terminal fatal periods,
  Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
  Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
  • Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 3.

• O dignitosa coscienza due east netta,
  Come up t' è picciol fallo amaro morso.
  • O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little declining wound thee sore!
  • Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio (1321), III. 8.

• Se tosto grazia risolva le schiume
  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro
  Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.
  • So may heaven'due south grace articulate away the foam from the censor, that the river of thy thoughts may whorl limpid thenceforth.
  • Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio (1321), XIII. 88.

• A bad conscience does not necessarily signify a bad character.
  • Hannah Arendt (1994), cited in: Duco A. Schreuder. Vision and Visual Perception, 2014, p. 148.

• If Man makes Censor, then being good
  Is only being worldly wise,
  And universal brotherhood
  A comfy compromise.
  • Alfred Austin, The Door of Humility (London: Macmillan and Co., 1906), "Italy", XXXII, line 21; p. 82

• In all periods of transitional thought and belief the censor suffers, since its former sanctions have been removed and none other have yet taken their place. It is undermined, without being adequately propped.
  • Alfred Austin, The Garden That I Love: Second Serial (London: Macmillan and Co., 1907), p. 111.

B [edit]

• If all the world hated you lot, and believed you wicked, while your ain conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
  • Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre (1847), Helen Burns in Ch. 8.

• Sin in the conscience, is like Jonah in a send, which causeth such a storm, that the censor is like a troubled bounding main, whose waters cannot residue, or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there.
  • Thomas Brooks in A Cabinet of Jewels (1669) from Works of Thomas Brooks, Vol. 3, Nichol's Series of Standard Divines, Puritan Flow, with General Preface by John C. Miller, D.D.; Rev. Thomas Smith, General Editor, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1866. pg.295.

• They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
  • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Pt III, Section IV. Memb. 2. Subsect. 3.

• Why should not Conscience have vacation
  Every bit well as other Courts o' thursday' nation?
  Have equal ability to curb,
  Engage appearance and return?
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 317.

• A quiet conscience makes one then serene!
  Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
  That all the Apostles would accept done as they did.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 83.

• But at 16 the conscience rarely gnaws
  So much, as when we phone call our quondam debts in
  At lx years, and draw the accounts of evil,
  And find a deuced balance with the devil.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 167.

C [edit]

• My thought, mamma, is that all our trouble is because there is so little conscience in people. I see through things, mamma, and I understand. If a homo has a stolen shirt I see it. A human being sits in a tavern and you fancy he is drinking tea and no more than, only to me the tea is neither here nor in that location; I meet further, he has no conscience. You can go about the whole 24-hour interval and not meet one man with a conscience. And the whole reason is that they don't know whether there is a God or not.
  • Anton Chekhov, "In the Ravine", (1900) ch. 4, pp. 199-200

• The range of a fine conscience covers more adept and evil than the range of conscience which may be called, roughly, not fine; a conscience, less troubled past the dainty bigotry of shades of carry. A fine conscience is more concerned with essentials; its triumphs are more perfect, if less profitable, in a worldly sense.
  • Joseph Conrad in Henry James — An Appreciation (1905).

• The all the same small-scale voice is wanted.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book V, line 687.

E [edit]

• His heed was destitute of that dread which has been erroneously decried as if it were nothing higher than a human's animate being care for his ain skin: that awe of the Divine Nemesis which was felt by religious pagans, and, though it took a more than positive form under Christianity, is still felt by the mass of mankind simply as a vague fear at anything which is called wrong-doing. Such terror of the unseen is then far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice: information technology is the initial recognition of a moral constabulary restraining desire, and checks the hard bold scrutiny of imperfect thought into obligations which can never be proved to have whatever sanctity in the abscnce of feeling.
  • George Eliot in Romola (1863) in Chapter XI.

G [edit]

• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
  • Mahatma Gandhi, "God is All Things to All Men," in Hinduism According to Gandhi: Thoughts, Writings and Disquisitional Interpretation (2013), p. 75.

• Censor is a coward, and those faults it has non strength to prevent, it seldom has justice plenty to accuse.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Chapter XIII.

H [edit]

• The Ten Commandments take lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blotch like circumcision.
  • Adolf Hitler Rauschning, in Hitler Speaks, p. 220

• Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can conduct.
  • Adolf Hitler Rauschning, in Hitler Speaks, p. 222

• Another doctrine repugnant to civil lodge, is that whatever a man does confronting his censor, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's censor and his judgement are the same thing, and as the sentence, and so as well the censor may be erroneous.
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (1651).

J [edit]

• God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
  • Saint John of the Cantankerous, Sayings of Light and Honey, #12

K [edit]

• The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience.
  • Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Beloved (1847), as translated past Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (1995), p. 143.

• On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it correct?" And there comes a time when ane must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of good will to come together with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the quondam Negro spiritual, "We own't goin' study war no more." This is the claiming facing modern man.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" (31 March 1968).

L [edit]

• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may exist the most oppressive. Information technology would be better to live nether robber barons than nether omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some bespeak exist satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without cease for they exercise so with the blessing of their ain conscience. They may exist more than likely to go to Sky yet at the aforementioned time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against 1's will and cured of states which we may not regard as illness is to be put on a level of those who have non nonetheless reached the historic period of reason or those who never volition; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
  • C. South. Lewis, in "God in the Dock" (1948).

M [edit]

• He that has low-cal within his own clear breast,
  May sit down i' the center, and savor vivid day;
  Simply he that hides a nighttime soul, and foul thoughts,
  Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
  Himself is his ain dungeon.
  • John Milton, Comus (1634), lines 381-385.

• Now conscience wakes despair
  That slumber'd, wakes the biting retention
  Of what he was, what is, and what must exist
  Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Volume IV, line 23.

• O Censor, into what abyss of fears
  And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 842.

• Allow his tormentor censor find him out.
  • John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book IV, line 130.

O [edit]

• The conscience exists, standing before united states now asking not to be created or perfected but to be called and defended, in need of champions, not exiles.
  • Carl Oglesby, "The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction," in Radical Perspectives in the Arts (1972), p. 51

P [edit]

• A consoling thought: what matters is non what we do, simply the spirit in which we practise it. Others endure too; and so much so that there is zero in the world just suffering; the problem is but to go on a articulate censor.
  • Cesare Pavese, This Business concern of Living, 1938-01-26

• I am confident that if a man surrenders his conscience to his idea of community, or to his Fuhrer, information technology doesn't must affair whether he calls himself Communist or Fascist- he has foresworn the element in himself which solitary can keep society homo. And for desire of that element, society must and volition inevitably abound more than and more barbarous. You lot tin can encounter it happening.
  • Max Plowman Peace News, February 5th, 1938. Reprinted in "Ten Years Ago", Peace News, No. 606. February 6th, 1948 (p.four).

• 要問心無愧，唔係叫你做個乖巧嘅人，而係要繼續做個好人，去阻止錯嘅嘢發生。
  • To have a clear censor, is non to be amusing, but to be good; to forestall misdeeds from happening.
    • Henry Wong Pak-yu (王百羽), Hong Kong politician and activist, 2021-02-27, upon his detention by the government

R [edit]

• As the saints and prophets were often forced to practice long vigils and fastings and prayers before their ecstasies would fall upon them and their visions would appear, and so Virtue in its purest and most exalted form tin only exist acquired by means of severe and long continued culture of the mind. Persons with feeble and untrained intellects may live co-ordinate to their conscience; but the conscience itself will be defective. … To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the organized religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should exist subservient to organized religion, will inevitably autumn.
  • William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872), p. 540.

S [edit]

• It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the outset intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and behave them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it patently is intended to exist, "a connecting principle betwixt the creature and the Creator."
  • John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1870), Lecture V. "Religion Combining Culture with Itself", p. 99.

• The play's the thing,
  Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
  • William Shakespeare, Village (1600-02), Hamlet in Act Two, scene II.

• Thus censor does make cowards of united states all;
  And thus the native hue of resolution
  Is sicklied o'er with the pale bandage of idea.
  And enterprises of great pith and moment,
  With this regard, their currents turn awry,
  And lose the proper name of action.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act 3, scene 1, line 83. ("Away," not "amiss" in folio).

• They are our outward consciences.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act Iv, scene 1, line 8.

• Now, if you can blush and cry, "guilty," primal,
  You'll bear witness a footling honesty.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry Viii (c. 1613), Act Iii, scene ii, line 306.

• I know myself now; and I experience within me
  A peace above all earthly dignities;
  A nevertheless and quiet conscience.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene ii, line 377.

• Better be with the dead,
  Whom nosotros, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstacy.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Human activity III, scene 2, line nineteen.

• Well, my conscience says, "Launcelot, budge not." "Budge," says the fiend: "budge not," says my conscience. "Censor," say I, "you counsel well." "Fiend," say I, "you lot counsel well."
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Human activity 2, scene 2.

• I detest the murderer, love him murdered.
  The guilt of conscience accept thou for thy labour,
  Only neither my good give-and-take nor princely favour:
  With Cain go wander through shades of night,
  And never bear witness thy head past day nor light.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 6, line 40.

• The worm of conscience all the same begnaw thy soul!
  Thy friends suspect for traitors while chiliad liv'st,
  And have deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 3, line 222.

• 'Tis a blushing shamefast spirit that mutinies in a homo's bosom; it fills one total of obstacles.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 141.

• Soft, I did but dream.
  O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
  • William Shakespeare, Richard Iii (c. 1591), Act V, scene 3, line 179.

• My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
  And every tongue brings in a several tale,
  And every tale condemns me for a villain.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard Three (c. 1591), Act V, scene 3, line 193.

• Censor is simply a word that cowards apply,
  Devis'd at kickoff to continue the strong in awe;
  Our strong artillery be our censor, swords our law.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), King Richard, Act V, scene iii, line 309.

• I know thou art religious,
  And hast a matter within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
  Which I have seen thee conscientious to discover.
  • William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Deed V, scene 1, line 75.

• The defoliation of marriage with morality has done more than to destroy the censor of the human race than any other single error.
  • This has as well been paraphrased every bit: Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the censor of the human race than whatever other fault.
  • George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903).

• The vocalization of censor is and so delicate that it is easy to stifle it, only it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake information technology.
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, On Germany (De fifty'Allemagne, 1813), Part 3, ch. thirteen.

• Trust that man in nothing who has not a Conscience in everything.
  • Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book II, Chapter XVII.

• And I know of the Future Judgment,
  How dreadful and then'er it be,
  That to sit solitary with my Conscience
  Will exist Judgment enough for me.
  • Charles William Stubbs, "The Judgment of Conscience", in Castles in the Air and Other Poems Old and New (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903), p. six.

T [edit]

• Must the citizen always for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his censor to the legislator? Why has every homo a conscience so? I call up that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards.
  • Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849).

• How far should 1 accept the rules of the society in which 1 lives? To put it another mode: at what point does conformity go abuse? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly ascertain itself.
  • Kenneth Tynan, review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly (1962), from Tynan Right and Left (1967), p. 117.

V [edit]

• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though i often perceives irregularities in directing one's course past information technology, all the same i must try to follow its direction.
  • Vincent van Gogh, every bit quoted in Beloved Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh (1995) edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 181.

• The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the optics of the body; and to open up the erstwhile requires no greater effort than to open the latter.
  • Alexandre Vinet, Evangelical Meditations (1858).

W [edit]

• Labor to keep live in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called Conscience.
  • George Washington, "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation", no. 57, in Jared Sparks, The Life of George Washington (London: Henry Colburn, 1839), Vol. Ii, p. 109.

Y [edit]

• A minority may practice for a society what the conscience does for an individual.
  • John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom (1984), p. 99.

Hoyt'southward New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations [edit]

Quotes reported in Hoyt'south New Concordance Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 130-31.

• There is no future pang
  Tin can bargain that justice on the cocky condemn'd
  He deals on his own soul.
  • Lord Byron, Manfred, Act III, scene 1.

• Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
  Heard through Gain'southward silence, and o'er Glory's din;
  Whatsoever creed be taught or land exist trod,
  Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
  • Lord Byron, The Isle, Canto I, Stanza 6.

• The Past lives o'er over again
  In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
  The always-frowning Present is its image.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse, Human activity I, scene 2.

• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! human being's near faithful friend,
  Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;
  Merely if he will thy friendly checks forego,
  Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
  • George Crabbe, Struggles of Conscience, last lines.

• Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,
  Die eine volition sich von der andern trennen.
  • 2 souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, I. 2. 307.

• Hic murus aeneus esto,
  Null conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.
  • Exist this thy brazen barrier, to go on a articulate conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
  • Horace, Epistles, I. one. 60.

• A cleere censor is a sure carde.
  • John Lyly, Euphues, p. 207. Arbor's reprint (1579).

• Whom censor, ne'er asleep,
  Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, simply deep.
  • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Volume II, Chapter 5. Of Conscience.

• Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra
  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.
  • According to the land of a man'southward conscience, so do hope and fearfulness on account of his deeds arise in his heed.
  • Ovid, Fasti, I. 485.

• One self-approval 60 minutes whole years outweighs
  Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle 4, line 255.

• Truthful, witting Accolade is to experience no sin,
  He'southward arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of Brass.
  • Alexander Pope, First Book of Horace, Epistle I, line 93.

• Some scruple rose, but thus he eas'd his thought,
  "I'll now give sixpence where I gave a groat;
  Where in one case I went to church, I'll now go twice—
  And am so articulate too of all other vice."
  • Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle Three, line 365.

• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content,
  And the gay Conscience of a life well spent,
  Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace,
  Glow in thy eye, and grinning upon thy confront.
  • Alexander Pope, To Mrs. K. B., on her Altogether.

• What Conscience dictates to be washed,
  Or warns me non to do;
  This teach me more than Hell to shun,
  That more than Heav'northward pursue.
  • Alexander Pope, Universal Prayer.

• Sic vive cum hominibus, tanquem deus videat; sic loquere cum deo, tanquam homines audiant.
  • Alive with men every bit if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you lot.
  • Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, Ten.

• La conscience des mourants calomnie leur vie.
  • The conscience of the dying belies their life.
  • Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, CXXXVI.

• Men who tin can hear the Decalogue and experience
  No cocky-reproach.
  • William Wordsworth, The Former Cumberland Beggar, line 136.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Bright Writers (1895) [edit]

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Called-for Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the continuing Sabbath of the saints.
  • Augustine of Hippo, p. 157.

• Be fearful merely of thyself, and stand up in awe of none more than thine ain censor.
  • Robert Burton, p. 157.

• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
  • John Calvin, p. 157.

• Conscience is God's vicegerent in the soul.
  • David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, p. 156.

• Every one of united states, whatever his speculative opinions, knows amend than he practices, and recognizes a ameliorate police than he obeys.
  • James Anthony Froude, p. 156.

• An old historian says well-nigh the Roman armies that marched through a state, burning and destroying every living thing, "They brand a solitude, and they call it peace." And then men do with their consciences. They stifle them, sear them, forcibly silence them, somehow or other; and and then, when there is a dead stillness in the center, broken by no voice of either approbation or blame, but doleful, similar the unnatural tranquility of a deserted city, then they say, "Information technology is peace;" and the man's uncontrolled passions and unbridled desires dwell solitary in the fortress of his ain spirit! Y'all may almost attain to that.
  • Alexander Maclaren, p. 158.

• We never exercise evil and so effectually as when we are led to practice it by a false principle of censor.
  • Blaise Pascal, p. 157.

• Censor is that peculiar kinesthesia of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
  • Samuel Smiles, p. 156.

• There is in human being a conscience which outlives the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
  • Edward Thompson, p. 157.

• Labor to proceed live in your chest that lilliputian spark of celestial burn down, called conscience.
  • George Washington, p. 157.

• There is no evil which we cannot face up or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.
  • Daniel Webster, p. 157.

Run into also [edit]

• Benignancy
• Ethics
• Harmlessness
• Honesty
• Law of cause and effect (Karma)
• Integrity
• Noblesse oblige
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Virtue

External links [edit]

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