David L. Norton: Quotes about the truth

David L. Norton was American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on truth.
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“What is commonly called liberality is the condition of being open, available to all truths. But this is precisely eclecticism, confusion, the absence of integrity.”

David L. Norton

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

Truth

“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

Truth , Parting , Personality

“Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a single standard or reduced to members of one series) and incompossibility (their difference is such that they cannot co-exist within the same system), such openness introduces both multiplicity and contradiction, and the creature in question stands “divided against himself.””

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), pp. 9-10

Truth , Question

“There are most certainly two distinguishable kinds of truths, “truths of reason” (that two plus two equals four) and “truths of fact” (that the sky appears blue). By his resort to his daimon Socrates added the class of “truths of self,” personal truths.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 7

Truth , Appearance , Personality

“To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8

Life , Truth

“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

Truth