Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Interpretation
Truth represents the highest state of existence, while justice is how we implement that truth in our lives.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic value of truth as the ultimate goal in understanding reality and existence. It suggests that while truth is a fundamental principle, the practical application of this truth through justice is essential in guiding our actions and decisions in societal matters.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the foundations of morality.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.
The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
What an awful thing life is, isnβt it? Itβs like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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