Michele Pasin / Quotes

Conscience and the heart

I saw Apocalypse Now at the cinema. I couldn't take me eyesaway from the screen. What you been up to, then, eh? On the record, there's Marlon Brando reading The Hollow Men, the struggle between man's conscience and his heart until things go too far, get out of hand ,and can never be repaired. Is everything so worthless in the end? Is there any more? What lies beyond? What is left to carry on?

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Conscience and internalized rules

Turns out it’s surprisingly difficult to explain proactive moral behavior, like voluntarily helping someone cross the street. Even enlightened self-interest…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #conscience #morality #executive-function #rules

Four uniquely human endowments

Within the freedom to choose are those endowments that make us uniquely human. In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination—the ability to create in our…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #consciousness #imagination #conscience #freedom

Imagination and conscience for personal leadership

our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #imagination #conscience #leadership

Principles belong to no single religion

The principles I am referring to are not esoteric, mysterious, or “religious” ideas. There is not one principle taught in this book that is unique to any…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #principles #religion #justice #conscience

Ryoshin, la coscienza innata

Cosa propone Onishi, dopo essersi sbarazzato di tutte le etiche fasulle? Egli si appella al ryoshin, termine confuciano dalla lunga storia. Meng-tzu fu il…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #conscience #ethics #consciousness #individuals #confucianism

Socrates' daimon was an external sign

Socrates always claimed to follow his own daimon, what Cicero called a ‘divine something’: a personal god or spirit, what we might be inclined to think of as…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophers #conscience #spirituality