Do we have to choose?

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

God offers the choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please - you can never have both.

In our post modern world, where we speak more of truths, than the Truth, perhaps repose might have its own truth to teach us.  I assume that Emerson is assuming that seeking truth takes constant effort, and the results are mostly disturbing, and repose would require us to adopt a less ambitious attitude.  So for Emerson, if repose were to be achieved, we would need to relax the free and responsible search for truth and meaning, and just relax.  This Emerson found hard to do, thus he gives us his proverb.

I am not convinced.  I will admit that one may find it hard to do both at the same time, but some preacher once wrote "there is a time for everything under the sun." And while his list didn't include repose and truth seeking, he did have some wisdom about timing.