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?
God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.
In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus' reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.
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