
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.