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“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Self Wish He Man Mass Conscience Cease

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.”

World Needs Feels Wish Water Common Ego Conscience Agreement Drop Of Water Separateness

Author:Mark Tobey

“I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience”

Giving Happens Wish Conscience Give Me Guilty Cinema Filmmaker His Love Guilty Conscience Bergman

Author:Steven Spielberg

“A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.”

Made Different Feelings Wish Morning Cry Friends Conscience Letters Grateful Posts Clock Troublesome So Grateful

Author:Kate Greenaway

“I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.”

Mind Feelings Christian Purpose Courses Belief Wish Simple Money Moral Power Standards Conscience Safety Orthodox Division Merchants Dichotomy Simple Faith

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.”

Wish Liberty Conscience Inquisition

Author:Jules Simon

“Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.”

Wish Forget Conscience Satire

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.”

Ifs Problem Culture Strong Nations Wish Ethics Conscience Army Jew Boundaries Being True Extensions Crops Colony

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.”

War Hate Wish Conscience Guilty Chewing Guilty Conscience

Author:Thor Heyerdahl