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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."
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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
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"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Life
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
Philosophy
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Society
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
Religion
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