Truth is a torch, but a huge one

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."