Les Grecs et l’Irrationnel (The Greeks and the Irrational), 1951
“C’est parce qu’elle est commise au nom de la vérité que l’erreur judiciaire est particulièrement insupportable.”
Sur l’affaire Dreyfus.
Jean-Denis Bredin 2
écrivain et avocat français 1929Citations similaires
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
en
De la liberté
“Expérience est le nom que nous donnons à nos erreurs.”
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
en
L'Éventail de Lady Windermere ('), 1892
“La vérité se cherche, l'erreur se flaire.”
Ne dites pas à Dieu ce qu'il doit faire, 2004