Quotes about Philosophical Integrity

No religion, no Ethical philosophy is worth anything, if the teacher has not lived the life of an apostle, and been ready to die the death of a martyr.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four.

Decir la verdad y después prenderse fuego. Esa es la tarea del filósofo.

I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.

There are no contradictions. When you think you found one. Check your premises.

Someone might say: " Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" Howeverm, I should be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

when Dandamys the Wise heard accounts of the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes, he said that they were in every way great personalities, except for their being too subject to venerating the Law: for, to support Law with its authority, true virtue must doff much of its original vigour; and many vicious deeds are done not merely with the Law's permission but at its instigation:13

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Law of Noncontradiction.

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

One must choose theonomy or autonomy, but autonomy is morally crippled. So also are half-way measures between theonomy and autonomy; the blending of the two yields subtle antinomianism.

A noble minded person is not an implement.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles." VFD