Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
Interpretation
Truthfulness is essential for all positive human qualities.
This quote emphasizes that being truthful is fundamental to developing and embodying all other virtues, such as honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness. It suggests that without a foundation of truthfulness, other values may be undermined or lost, highlighting the crucial role that honesty plays in personal and societal morality.
In practice
In a discussion about ethics, I cited this quote to emphasize the importance of honesty in building trust.
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory.
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact_x000D_ But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
Some events do take place but are not true;_x000D_ others are, although they never occurred.
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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