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It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.
louis antoine de saint-just— Travaillons enfin pour le bonheur du peuple, et que les legislateurs qui doivent éclairer le monde prennent leur course d'un pied hardi, comme le soleil.
— Speech to the National Convention (December 27, 1792). [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, Vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 383]
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
— Bertrand Russell, "The Pursuit of Truth" in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (1993).
Sitting in a solitary place, freeing the mind from desires and controlling the senses, meditate with unswerving attention on the Atman which is One without-a-second.
— Adi Shankara, in Atma-Bodha, as translated by Swami Madhavananda
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.
— William Morley Punshon, p. 453. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman , Eternal and Immutable , of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss .
— Swami Chinmayananda, in "Tarangini - X",P.40
I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
bertrand russell— "The Pursuit of Truth" in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (1993).
