Quotes about Philosophical Integrity

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.

Sinceramente? Èpico.

SOCRATES: This, in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do. In just this way, our two speeches placed all [266] mental derangements into one common kind.

Sigamos, pues, hablando y escuchando por turno, pero recordando antes el lugar en que describíamos las cualidades innatas que había de reunir forzosamente quien hubiera de ser hombre de bien. Y su principal y primera cualidad era, si lo recuerdas, la verdad, la cual debía él perseguir en todo asunto y por todas partes si no era un embustero que nada tuviese que ver con la verda­dera filosofía.

Querido Critão! Quão precioso o teu ardor, se alguma retidão o acompanhasse!

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].