Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Honesty should be your foundation, not based on religion or policy but they based on it.
- In plain terms
- Base your religion and policy on honesty.
- What can you take from it?
- Make honesty your core principle.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is your foundation?
- Is your honesty conditional?
Another view
Values often conflict and cannot always be purely honest.
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