It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.


The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (ed. 1906)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence...

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence...

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence...

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence...