Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Conscience

• I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Fate, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.326, Vintage

• Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Mean, Delight

• What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doe, Should, Persons

• If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hurt, Kissing, Train

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

• The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.168, 谷月社

• Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Adventure, Men, Despair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Causes, Blame, Judgment

• A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reputation, Easier, Bad Reputation

• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.41, Courier Corporation

• Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Cities, Intellectual

• In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Hatred, Intellectual

• It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Praying, Disgrace

• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

• Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Judging, Ideals

• The bite of conscience is indecent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bites, Conscience

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

• In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

• Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Looks, Thirds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

• Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roles, Politician, Comic

• A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Play, Coward

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

• It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Moral, Puritan

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.119, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Action, Cowardly, Conscience

• The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Stupidity, Stones

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

• Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Eye, Hands

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.164, Vintage

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