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"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"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."
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"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."
"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."
"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."
"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
"If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar."
"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
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