"A stated truth loses its grace, but..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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“When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.”
“I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.”
More on Truth
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”
“Be just, and fear not.Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,Thy God's and truth's.”
More on Error
“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”
“What are man's truths ultimately?Merely his irrefutable errors.”
“Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”