Tags / 9 quotes from 5 sources
#conscience
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
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 does not fully explain certain types of human altruism. The road between moral reasoning and moral behavior is quite…
Control Script - Transcript From The Screenplay And/or The Ian Curtis Joy Division Movie
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…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
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 primo a usarlo, ma soltanto da Wang Yang-ming in poi gli si attribuisce una rilevanza etica centrale. Di solito lo si…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
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 specific faith or religion, including my own. These principles are a part of most every major enduring religion, as well as…
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 minds beyond our present reality. We have conscience—a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that…
Taking charge of our own first creation
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past…
Imagination and conscience for personal leadership
our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.
We detect rather than invent our mission
Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make. In Frankl’s words…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
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 conscience. However, Socrates’ daimon was not some ‘inner voice’, but an external sign or command that would suddenly…