Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

(late 18th Century) -- famous saying-proverb

If God held all truth

in his right hand

and in his left the

never-ending struggle

for truth -- with the

proviso that I would

always and eternally

err -- and said to me,

"CHOOSE!" I would fall

before his left hand

with humility and say,

"Father, give!

The Pure Truth is for

You alone."