• Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

  René Daumal
  French writer, philosopher and poet 1908-1944
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1. miscalculation
2. essentially
3. little
4. pieces
5. hoping
6. grains

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation. by : René Daumal

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