Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Conscience
-
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
→ -
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
→ -
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
→ -
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
→ -
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
→ -
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
→ -
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
→ -
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
→ -
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
→ -
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
→ -
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
→ -
If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts
→ -
About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
→ -
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
→ -
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
→ -
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
→ -
The bite of conscience is indecent.
→ -
Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
→ -
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
→ -
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
→ -
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
→ -
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
→ -
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
→ -
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
→ -
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
→ -
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
→ -
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
→ -
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
→ -
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
→ -
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
→