Quotes About Consequences

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should be limited by what is thinkable. Can you think a god? [...] You should think through your own senses to their consequences.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.

Los fisiólogos deberían pensárselo bien antes de afirmar que el instinto de autoconservación es el instinto cardinal de un ser orgánico. Algo vivo quiere, antes que nada, dar libre curso a su fuerza — la vida misma es voluntad de poder —: la autoconservación es tan sólo una de las consecuencias indirectas y más frecuentes de esto.

Thereby men do not flee from being deceived as much as from being damaged by deception: what they hate at this stage is basically not the deception but the bad, hostile consequences of certain kinds of deceptions. In a similarly limited way man wants the truth: he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth, but he is indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no consequences; he is even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths.

Punishment.—A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The

Preparatory human beings. — I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day — the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree.

Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.

A culture based on the principle of science must perish once it begins to become illogical, i.e. to turn and flee its own consequences.

If we train our conscience, it will kiss us at the very moment it bites us

He who destroys the illusions in himself and others is punished by nature, the cruelest tyrant.

Don't follow it, Fafhrd," the Mouser repeated—a little hopelessly, almost whiningly, it must be admitted. "Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death. We can still go back up the rope, aye, and take your loot with us.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences

When I was younger, I used to drive like this all the time. Today I expected to be pulled over, pummeled, and summarily arrested at any moment. I felt old and stodgy.

Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed

But we can never do nothing. That which we have done for thousands of years is also action

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.