From the clash of feelings and opinions
Truth bursts forth and escapes in rays of light.

Johannes Kneppelhout, Studentenschetsen, vol. 2, ed. M. Lenders, A. Kets, O. Praamstra (The Hague, 2002), p. 534, n. 777: du choc des opinions jaillit la vérité | Nicolaas Beets, Winterloof. Late Gedichten, 1884–1887 (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1887), p. 35: Du choc des opinions naquit la vérité (title of poem)