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Six Clarifying Quotes on Honesty

By Daniel Wahl

Sep 27, 2010
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In Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, Tara Smith dives deep into the virtues on which life depends, showing why they are requirements and what they demand. Here are six quotes I particularly liked, from Smith's chapter on honesty:

    "As the refusal to fake reality, honesty consists in a deliberate, principled renunciation of any evasion, dis…

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