Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
“If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.”
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.”
Book II, p. 415.
Collected Works
Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.
Maxim 331, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
The complete political works. Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, p. 306
1790s
“sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler”
Source: Angels & Demons
