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- Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you are in conflict with yourself.
- Tom Hopkins
- The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
- David Riesman
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Taylor
- One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
- Author Unknown
- "It happens to each according to his consciousness," is the Law of Consciousness.
- L. S. Barksdale
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Consciousness of our powers augments them.
- Vauvenargues
- Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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