George Santayana Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

  George Santayana

  Justice, Bars, Spirit

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Fairy Tale, Tales

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.8, Indiana University Press

• The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

  George Santayana

  Feelings, Moral, Strongest

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.256, Рипол Классик

• Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

  George Santayana

  Men, Comforting, Opinion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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