“He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.” KnowsTryingLooksPersonsDoeSoulOrderTurnsKnowingConscienceMirrorsSaintImpulseBotherDirtyDefectsModerates Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.” LifeSoulOur LivesShapesConscienceMirrorsErrors Author:George Bancroft
“Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.” IfsThinkingWould BeSubjectsPositionPerspectiveEgoConscienceMirrorsPsychoanalysisAnorexics Author:Simon Critchley
“Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.” IfsMenHumansActionUnderstandingPowerfulAwarenessConscienceMirrorsPassionateAwakeningTruthfulSharpening Author:Cornell Capa
“With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.” IfsTryingWellsKindMadeEnoughShowsEyeSocialResultsBloodTearsEvolutionConscienceMirrorsDenyPassingPassingsColourSaltReserves Author:Jose Saramago
“What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.” HumansLooksHeartHas BeensSaidTwoSelfWholeCharacterDifferencesPleasureSeeingMysteryYouthFineClothesConscienceMirrorsRegardShoesDareNobleImpulseMaturityResolveDeceivingPhasesSpontaneousHuman HeartCalculationsGlovesMoralistSwervePhases Of LifeSudden Change Author:Honore de Balzac
“I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror” IfsMeanWholeSocialDifferencesConscienceBuiltMirrorsBlameDollarsSandWhat IfInherentStemShiftingPyramidsDespisedShifting SandGenomics Author:David Mitchell
“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.” TryingMadeMightConscienceAskingMirrorsBlameShock Author:David Mitchell
“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.” MindHeartMayIdeasSometimesLightCausesHoursImaginationDarkForgetExistenceBreakPrayingConscienceMirrorsDepthActiveWideChainsGrievingPrisonerBuriedBrotherhoodPassiveSensibilityMidnightRemorseTombsSlumberDungeonsVividnessRevelry Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.” KnowsMenLooksHeartHandsHeavenWishKnow HowExpectationsConscienceMirrorsSurroundSerenityPalmsBe A ManTransparencyModernityHopes And Expectations Book:Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity Source: Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity