All 22 Uses of
conscience
in
The Idiot
- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.; in fact, all that would naturally be said under the circumstances.†
Chpt 1.4conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- One's conscience very soon informs one what is the proper narrative to tell.†
Chpt 1.14
- My intentions are perfectly honest; on my conscience he will lose nothing, and I will pay back the money with interest.†
Chpt 2.2
- that's enough in all conscience!†
Chpt 2.2
- You did not think I should start at the first word from you, and you merely wrote to relieve your conscience.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- When you feel that your conscience reproaches you a little less, come over to me and we'll have a talk about the past!†
Chpt 2.6
- This is simply a case of conscience and of strict justice.†
Chpt 2.8
- But we are also aware that if actual law is not on our side, human law is for us, natural law, the law of common-sense and conscience, which is no less binding upon every noble and honest man—that is, every man of sane judgment—because it is not to be found in miserable legal codes.†
Chpt 2.8
- If we come here without fear of being turned out (as was threatened just now) because of the imperative tone of our demand, and the unseemliness of such a visit at this late hour (though it was not late when we arrived, we were kept waiting in your anteroom), if, I say, we came in without fear, it is just because we expected to find you a man of sense; I mean, a man of honour and conscience.†
Chpt 2.8
- If it is yes, or, in other words, if you possess what you call honour and conscience, and we more justly call common-sense, then accede to our demand, and the matter is at an end.†
Chpt 2.8
- But we will tell you to your face before the present company that you are a man of vulgar and undeveloped mind; we will openly deny you the right to speak in future of your honour and conscience, for you have not paid the fair price of such a right.†
Chpt 2.8
- He looked at it as a case that might bring him in a lot of money, and he did not calculate badly; because on the one hand he speculated on the generosity of the prince, and his gratitude to the late Mr. Pavlicheff, and on the other to his chivalrous ideas as to the obligations of honour and conscience.†
Chpt 2.9
- He will have none of your money, possibly, he will refuse it because his conscience will not allow him to accept it, but he will go murdering you by night and walking off with your cashbox, with a clear conscience!†
Chpt 2.9
- He will have none of your money, possibly, he will refuse it because his conscience will not allow him to accept it, but he will go murdering you by night and walking off with your cashbox, with a clear conscience!†
Chpt 2.9
- 'We do not beseech, we demand, you will get no thanks from us, because you will be acting to satisfy your own conscience!'†
Chpt 2.9
- if you declare that the prince's generosity will, excite no gratitude in you, he might answer that he is not, bound to be grateful to Pavlicheff, who also was only satisfying his own conscience.†
Chpt 2.9
- It is best, I think, to leave the matter to your own conscience.†
Chpt 2.11
- It is manifest that, pricked by remorse—for my client is religious, in his way, and has a conscience, as I shall prove later—and desiring to extenuate his sin as far as possible, he has tried six times at least to substitute lay nourishment for clerical.†
Chpt 3.4
- Six attempts to calm his remorse, and the pricking of his conscience, would amply suffice, for these attempts could scarcely have been happy ones.†
Chpt 3.4
- In the second place, and giving my own personal opinion, a child's flesh is not a satisfying diet; it is too insipid, too sweet; and the criminal, in making these experiments, could have satisfied neither his conscience nor his appetite.†
Chpt 3.4
- Examining the depths of her conscience, she found nothing to reproach herself with, and this still further strengthened her in her designs.†
Chpt 4.1
- I don't ask either admission or confirmation of this from yourself; I am quite content to leave you to your conscience, and to feel that we understand one another capitally.†
Chpt 4.2
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior