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Conscience |
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Quotations
 | Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 12 likes |
 | Conscience is a Jewish invention. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 10 likes |
 | When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 9 likes |
 | In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 9 likes |
 | He had a clear conscience. Never used it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 8 likes |
 | I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 5 likes |
| People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
| There's no coming to consciousness without pain. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
 | If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 5 likes |
 | Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes |
 | Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes |
 | A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 4 likes |
 | Conscience is a man’s compass. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
| Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
 | The subconscious takes its revenge at night. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 3 likes |
 | Conscience reigns but it does not govern. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | The tendency to occultism is a symptom of regression in consciousness. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul. — François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer 2 likes |
 | Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Julius Caesar 2 likes |
| The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. |
 | A good conscience is eight parts of courage. |
 | A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | Conscience is better served by a myth. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. |
 | A man’s conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn’t do – but it does not keep him from doing it. |
 | Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking. |
 | A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. |
 | All a man can betray is his conscience. |
 | The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. |
 | Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience violates the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 7 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance. O δίκαιος αταρακτότατος, ο δ’ άδικος πλείστης ταραχής γέμων. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 23 likes |
Proverbs
 | The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 5 likes |
