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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Truth and Repose

Truth and Repose.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever! He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets—most likely, his father's. He gets rest, commodity, i.e., wealth and reputation; but he shuts the door upon truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings and afloat. He will abstain from dogmatism and recognise all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung. He submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion, but he is a candidate for truth, as the other is not, and respects the highest law of his being.—Emerson.