1854
1850s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1850s
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
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“You cannot possess the truth, you can only search for it.”
La vérité ne se possède pas, elle se cherche.
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