“But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality. Truth became my sole objective. It began to grow in magnitude every day, and my definition of it also has been ever widening.”
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A life can be organized around many things — success, pleasure, approval. Making truth the load-bearing center reorders everything else beneath it, and the commitment tends to deepen over time as your grasp of what it actually demands keeps widening.
When to use it
- A researcher lets inconvenient data reshape a theory she had spent years defending.
- A salesman stops overpromising once he decides honesty outranks the monthly quota.
- A teenager keeps a difficult promise to a friend even after the friendship has cooled.