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“Concerning the truth at hand he (Socrates) was saying, yes, surely, it is a truth a reason or a truth of fact, but before I offer it I must discover whether it is a personal truth and a part of myself, for otherwise I must leave its enunciation to others.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), pp. 7-8

“Autonomy is not "total self-sufficiency" but "the entitlement of each interactive entity to determine for itself what its contributions to others will be and, likewise, to determine for itself what use it will make of the self-determined contributions of other entities.”

David L. Norton

Imagination, Understanding, and the Virtue of Liberality, ch. 4

“The great enemy of integrity is not falsehood as such but … the attractiveness of foreign truths, truths that belong to others.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 9