Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Conscience

• The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3527, Delphi Classics

• Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Holy, Should

• The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Contemplation, Contemplative

• Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Men, Married

• Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agents, Action, Virtue

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