Immanuel Kant Quotes

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.