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Drive for truth May 5, 2009

It has been quite a while since I made a new post here, but my excuse is that school has been really busy.  I don’t really have anything earth-shattering (although that’s probably true every time  I post), but I thought I would put this quote up that I ran across while feeling a bit of nostalgia for one of the few things I have read.

If God held all truth enclosed in his right hand, and in his left hand the one and only ever-striving drive for truth, even with the corollary of erring forever and ever, and iff he were to say to me: Choose! – I would humble fall down at his left hand and say: Father, give! Pure truth is indeed only for you alone!

That is, as you may have guessed, from Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscripts, but it is a quote from Lessing (wikipedia), whom the author of C.U.P. has a great deal of respect for.