One of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite artists, dug out and presented by one of my favourite thinkers.
Note in the threepart video on Dürer's life, the presenter's remarkable interpretation of Dürer's last oil painting, starting at time mark 4:20, which strikes me as being rather consistent with the below quote of archaic German:
Doch so will ich das Wenige, das ich gelernt hab, so viel ich mag, an Tag lassen kummen, auf [daß] ein Besserer dann ich bin sein errät und mich und mein Irrthum mit seinem gegenwärtigen Werk beweislich strof.
Des will ich mich freuen, und dorum daß ich dennocht ein Ursach bin, daß solche Wohrheit an Tag kummt.
Rendered thus into English, by Sir Karl Popper in his book All Life Is Problem Solving:
But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet the means whereby this truth has come to light.
