“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.”
Book II, p. 415.
Collected Works
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors." by Peter Mere Latham?
Peter Mere Latham16
English physician and educator 1789–1875Related quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
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)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
Maxim 310, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
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.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The complete political works. Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, p. 306
1790s
“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.
Noli me Tangere
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 26-27