#consc

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#common sense #conscience #dangerous #dangerous thing #hitched

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. ↗

— Robert Lanza

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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. ↗

— Mark Twain

#childhood #conscience #human-nature #humanity #sleep

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#consciousness #mind #moment #reality #time

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#conscience #conviction #guilt #life #motivation

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#introspection #life #life

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#change #consc #conscious-awareness #consciouses #rasheed-ogunlaru