"from their own hearts"

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

     "The only way out of this prison of self-deception and self-justification is to love and seek the truth—and to believe that truth is something we share:  not 'my truth' and 'your truth' but the truth, truth as a commons, a potentially fertile plot of ground we tend together and that is nurtured by our collective work or ruined by our neglect. . . .
". . . In a society that does not love and seek truth and whose people do not know their own temptations and strive to expel deception from their own hearts, then, in the end, Truth will be what Power says it is."

     Alan Jacobs, "Staying for the truth," The hedgehog review:  critical reflections on contemporary culture 24, no. 3 (Fall 2022):  12 (9-12).