Literary notes about Integrity (AI summary)
In literature, integrity is depicted as a multifaceted quality that encompasses ethical rectitude, personal honor, and the unyielding adherence to one's principles. It is often celebrated as a cornerstone of moral character—illustrated by references to innate fortitude and rectitude [1] and the rigorous expression of duty and faith [2]. Writers extend the concept to include intellectual and cultural honesty, as demonstrated in discussions of authentic thought and literary precision [3][4]. Moreover, integrity is frequently employed to highlight the virtue of steadfastness in both personal conduct and in the maintenance of societal and national ideals [5][6][7], making it a term that bridges the personal with the political and the cultural.
- entereza , f. , integrity, rectitude, fortitude, firmness.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson - This is a profession of faith which comprises all my duty and integrity.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - If we ask what the secret of this influence was, Goethe himself will tell us—elasticity, wholeness, intellectual integrity.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater - But what affected Goethe, what instructed him and ministered to his culture, was the integrity, the truth to its type, of the given force.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater - The integrity of the fatherland would have been endangered.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal - “Our end is our holy religion and the integrity of the fatherland.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal - By increasing the obstacles to success, it discourages attempts to seduce the integrity of either.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
