How many great minds have
given their own lives to open others their eyes; and once the truth is
revealed, how long could it take to be forgotten as to get the same mistakes
again; so, how much you should put at risk yourself in order to show
others what the truth is; how much is really worth humanity as to give them
your life to make them trascend at least a little. But in the end, it is the
nature of a noble spirit to tell the truth, regardless of the consequences.
Goethe said:
"It is much easier
to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be
overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to
everyone."
"Truth belongs to
the man, error to his age. This is why it has been said that, while the
misfortune of the age caused his error, the force of his soul made him emerge
from the error with glory."
"Truth is a torch,
but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes that we all of us try to
get past it, in actual terror of being burnt."
"For, as the water
dislodged by a ship, instantly flows in again behind it, so when great minds
have dispelled error, and made room for themselves, it naturally closes in
again behind them very speedily."