Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very sim…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited. ✨ Maxims and Reflections. Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 310, 1998.
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