Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), pp. 7-8
“I would remind you…that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable approximation of truth might be. He was executed not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.”
The Unconscious Civilization (1995)
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Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 7