Conscience Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher has to be the bad conscience of his age.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The bite of conscience is indecent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— 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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even now one is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience One thinks with a watch in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?In the end, you might merely be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche