The Conscience (n.) 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.
Conscience (n.) is essentially bad conscience in that man, by accepting a morality that represses one's instincts, is essentially the conniving of oneself against oneself.
Conscience (n.) is man's instinct for cruelty turned back on itself such that it created within man a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness.
Conscience (n.) , with care, can be trained to kiss us while it hurts.
Conscience (n.) is the belief in authority, making it not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
Conscience (n.) is, when occasioned, for example, by a sneer or cold look, nothing other than the fear of growing solitude: it the herd instinct speaking up in us.
Conscience (n.) is less important than reputation. What others think about one is more powerful than what one thinks about oneself, for it turns out that it is easier to cope with a bad conscience than to cope with a bad reputation.
Conscience (n.) calls: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.' Whoever would not belong to the mass need only stop taking himself easily.
Conscience (n.) is more comfortable to follow than reason, for it gives an excuse if things miscarry — hence so many conscientious people and so few reasonable ones.
Conscience (n.) stings like a snake stinging a stone — a piece of stupidity.
Conscience (n.) is everything demanded of us without reason in childhood by people we honoured or feared — not the voice of God in man but the voice of some men in man.
Conscience (n.) has one question — 'in summa: what is it you really want changed?' We want to cease making causes into sinners and consequences into executioners.
Conscience (n.) says: you shall become the person you are.
Conscience (n.) bites, and its bites teach people to bite.
Conscience (n.) that we have trained kisses us while it hurts us.
Conscience (n.) should not nag after the deed — don't be cowardly about your actions! Don't abandon them afterwards! The pang of conscience is obscene.
Conscience (n.) steps up front once God is gone: the more emancipated one is from theology, the more imperativistic morality becomes.
Conscience (n.) is an inner voice invented by the holy lie, which judges actions not by their consequences but by their intention and its conformity with the "laws."
Conscience (n.) bites when the character is not equal to the deed — and it can bite after good works too, for what is unfamiliar in them.
Conscience (n.) creates no values: it reprehends an action because it has been reprehended for a long time — it merely repeats.