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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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"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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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
"The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system."
"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
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