Quotes About Integrity

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do

There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different than the things we do.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

Good Advice You've a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

The noble soul reveres itself

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated, our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

One is punished most for one's virtues.

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies—and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through "innocence" or "ignorance." The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God

Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself. Let him follow his conscience, which calls out to him: "Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, all that is not you.