Sentence examples for external conscience from inspiring English sources

Loss is a kind of external conscience, urging us to make better use of our finite days.

This is the pattern of dialogue in "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.," with its long, comically earnest discussions (both internal and external) of "the commodification of conscience" followed by an assessment of some woman's "nice rack".

We have both learnt from experience that the strongest basis for sustained and serious action comes when an issue stops being a matter of external pressure, or even personal conscience, and becomes a matter of business strategy and the bottom line.

Rousseau's struggle toward a morality based on transparent honesty and on values authenticated not by any external authority but by his own conscience and feelings, is continued in the Confessions (written 1764 70; Eng. trans. Confessions).

He follows no external compass, but the dictates of his conscience and spiritual path.

By the age of 6, the child starts to change the external guidance system (parents) to the internal guidance system (conscience).

Instead, a deterministic process has coerced the external person into performing the act of sin against his conscience and his true will.

Whereas ethics is concerned with the inner world of conscience, the theory of right is concerned only with the external, public realm, though only insofar as the latter can be viewed as an embodiment of freedom.

External placing of responsibility is known to protect against experiences of stress, which could be caused by qualms of conscience [ 18].

Watchdog, gadfly, conscience, irritant.

His conscience pounces: "Aha!