“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.”

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

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American philosopher 1930–1995

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