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conscience

is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders. Honore de Balzac

is a metaphor, a deceiving and unreliable form of discourse.

For Hobbes, metaphor is a name for discourse which is false: it is one of the 'abuses of speech' when people 'use words metaphorically... that is, in other sense than that they are ordained for... and thereby deceive others' (1.4). By calling conscience a metaphor, he categorizes it as a deceiving and unreliable form of discourse. It is, moreover, removed from its divine authority, and made into a human condition.

is a result of man lacking external enemies and thus impatiently ripping himself apart, persecuting himself, gnawing at himself, abusing himself, and giving himself no peace.

Lacking external enemies and obstacles, and forced into the oppressive narrowness and conformity of custom, man impatiently ripped himself apart, persecuted himself, gnawed at himself, gave himself no peace and abused himself, this animal who battered himself raw on the bars of his cage and who is supposed to be 'tamed.' . . . (OGM, II: 16)

is altogether different in the two sexes, but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other... but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man. Henrik Ibsen

is essentially bad conscience in that man, by accepting a morality that represses one's instincts, is essentially the conniving of oneself against oneself.

In the second essay, 'Bad Conscience,' Nietzsche reflects on why we humans, distinguished from other animals by the ability to make a promise, should connive in our subjugation by accepting a morality that represses our instincts, so that conscience is essentially 'bad conscience.' Diethe)

Conscience is God present in man. Victor Hugo

is like a sun-dial... if you let truth shine upon it, it will put you right.

Conscience is like a sun-dial... if you let truth shine upon it, it will put you right

is man's instinct for cruelty turned back on itself such that it created within man a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness.

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' (OGM, II: 16).

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