The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- An honest person must constantly reject outdated beliefs and errors to stay true to truth.
- In plain terms
- To stay honest, you must keep changing your mind when you find errors.
- What can you take from it?
- Truth requires constant rejection of old errors.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you know when to change your mind?
- Is consistency more important than truth?
Another view
Constant change can feel unstable to others.
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