Inevitability of mistakes

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Man will err while yet he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Inevitability of mistakes Mistakes

Speaker

The Lord

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Prolog im Himmel [Prologue in Heaven: The Wager]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Prologue in Heaven." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Inevitability of mistakes Mistakes

Author

John Locke

Source

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1690 1690s 17th century

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Original Citation

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 4, ch. 20, sect. 17.

Current Citation

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 20, sect. 17.