“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.” MenHardPhilosophySeemsTodayFoundFeltEnemyDangerousGreatnessFoolTomorrowConscienceIdealsTasksMarkExtraordinaryPhilosopherContradictionDisagreeableUnwantedQuestion Mark Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.” IfsMenMayChristDangerousDevilConscienceOvercomingGladDoctrineCertaintyDisputesSolaceDoubtfulSerpentSteadfast Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.” DoeShowsBodyRunningDangerousConscienceStonesWoundsBulletsExhaustingBrakeStags Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.” IfsSpiritViewsDangerousConsciencePornographySemblanceErode Author:Thomas S. Monson
“What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.” HumansEnoughLosesAnimalGoneDangerousConscienceIdeologyBeastHumanness Author:Ali Sina
“Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework.” PeopleWellsBookMoralDangerousIgnoranceConscienceOutcomesFramework Author:Ernest L. Boyer
“As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.” KnowsWorldShowsRealityHumanityOrderLeftDangerousConscienceMissionsObjectivesTragicExpensesCapturePhotojournalists Author:Alfredo Jaar
“Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.” WorldKindDoneDestinySpecialDangerousMetsConscienceFunctionPaidMajorityLuxuryIslamicReachingAlsVery HappySufiAntithesisExecutionersWorldliness Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr