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"Reason in a man is rather like God in the world" |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
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"To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to condemning the command of God" |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
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"Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in in, but it, likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide, the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature: it therefore belongs to our condition of being: it is out duty to walk in that path, and follow this guide" |
Joseph Butler |
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"Had it strength, as it has right; had it power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world" |
Joseph Butler |
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"It was not a dictate, nor conveyed the notion of responsibility, of duty, of a threat and a promise..." |
John Newman |
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"Everything is what it is, and not another thing" |
Joseph Butler |
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"It is not so much that I have a conscience - a special piece of equipment - as that I am a consciencd |
MacNamara |
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"If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear." |
John Newman |
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"Conscience enables us to judge good and evil, reproaches us when we have done wrong, gives us peace when we have done well." |
Enda McDonagh |
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"And perhaps a little demythologising may be in order, for conscience is not a small voice, not bells, nor blind stab in the dark; it is simply me coming to a decision. When I say 'my conscience tells me' all I am really saying is 'I think'" |
Jack Mahoney |
