Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.
Conscience is better served by a myth.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
The conscience is more wise than science.
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
The only guide to man is his conscience.
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.
I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.