Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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.Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse -
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton -
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein -
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
Elia Kazan -
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
Austin Phelps -
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
Douglas Jerrold -
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Aristotle -
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
Aristotle -
Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh
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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
Plato -
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
Plato -
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles -
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
Euripides -
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
John Stuart Mill -
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I always look for contradiction in a character.
Rebecca Hall -
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.
Shekhar Kapur -
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
Martin Luther -
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche