If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
The cistern contains; the fountain overflows.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
3 from Blake
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
Jung said that truth needs the concert of many voices but we can see where that has led to.
Can your quote be true in light of the fact that those people going down that one-way (absolutist) street are not capable of seeing that there can be another way to go in seeking truth?
You can, in a sense, turn back on time. You can reflect on your past (time) to grow from it. You can discover that things which you believed in, things which you absolutely knew to be true, were not really true at all. You come to see this because you have grown and your perspective has changed.
The way that I look at it, you can “turn back on truth” because being that humans are imperfect and fallible, truth changes as we change. Then, sometime in the future, you might again turn back on time and discover that your previous truth or Truth was not altogether truth or even nearly truth.
Why do we need truth to be written in stone? How do we grow that way ~~ when we are so convinced of this or that or everything.