The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
Many brief follies-that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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