“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
“On this third planet from the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.”
"In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself"
Poems New and Collected (1998), A Large Number (1976)
“A clear conscience doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t any conscience.”
Featherisms (2008)
Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".
“Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.”
Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 210
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)
“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Source: What is Man? (1938), p. 178
Context: Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way. Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”
Source: The Gay Science
