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Philosophical literature2 quotes
It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error; and another, to put him in possession of truth. — John Locke · 1690It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Political literature1 quote
It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. — John Stuart Mill · 1859