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Thursday, November 26, 2015
The Search for Truth
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Waste Books, L 419 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale):
Motto: to desire to discover the truth is meritorious, even if we go astray on the way.
Motto: die Wahrheit finden wollen ist Verdienst, wenn man auch auf dem Wege irrt.