{"id":3277,"date":"2008-12-01T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-g-e-lessing\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T07:28:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-g-e-lessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-g-e-lessing.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (G. E. Lessing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left the everlasting striving after truth, with the risk that I should always and everlastingly be mistaken, and said to me \u2018Choose!\u2019 in humility I would pick the left hand and say, \u2018Father grant me that: Absolute <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/what_is_truth.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">truth<\/a> is for thee alone.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.yale.edu\/div\/Freitranscripts\/Frei10-Transformation.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eine Duplik<\/em> (1778) in <em>Gesammelte Werke<\/em><\/a>, ed. 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