 | Paul Oskar Kristeller - 1964 - Страниц: 216
...than a capable and clear intellect. The object of the will is goodness, the object of the intellect, truth. It is better to will the good than to know the true. . . . Hence those are in error who spend their time in knowing rather than in loving God. For... | |
 | Paul Oskar Kristeller, Thomas Allan Brady, Heiko Augustinus Oberman - 1975 - Страниц: 504
...the will was its separation from and its elevation above reason. "It is safer," Petrarch declared, "to strive for a good and pious will than for a capable and clear intellect. ... It is better to will the good than to know the truth." 127 Melanchthon was developing the implications... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - Страниц: 596
...while the former set the reader afire with love of virtue: the object of the will, Petrarch wrote, "is to be good; that of the intellect is truth. It...is better to will the good than to know the truth." Goodness is better than truth — we seem to be reading Diderot.7 The artists, who were in general... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 1978 - Страниц: 334
...acquiring it'. For this leads them to miss the crucial point that (as he puts it in a famous epigram) 'it is better to will the good than to know the truth' (pp. 105, 107). Again this line of attack was carried on with renewed vigour by the early quattrocento... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - 1979 - Страниц: 458
...above all for "abstracting from life." Against such abstraction Petrarch made his famous declaration: "It is better to will the good than to know the truth." 21 There is an abiding disinclination among humanists to pursue doctrinal questions beyond a certain... | |
 | Hans Wagener - 1988 - Страниц: 154
...to be opposed to them at every point of this array. " The object of the will,' Petrarch maintained, 'is to be good; that of the intellect is truth. It...is better to will the good than to know the truth' " (Gray 501). 25. Herrmann: Terenz in Deutschland, p. 12, 20. 26. Herrick: Comic Theory, p. 5. 27.... | |
 | Denys Hay - 1951 - Страниц: 468
...did not know very well, for he irritably and repeatedly disclaims any virtue in learning in itself. 'It is safer to strive for a good and pious will than for a capable and clear intellect'.12 Or to paraphrase the sentiment in the verse written (I find the author surprising) by... | |
 | William J. Bouwsma - 1989 - Страниц: 324
...53:11; cf. Petrarch: "What is the use of knowing what virtue is if it is not loved when known? ... It is better to will the good than to know the truth" (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia, trans. Hans Nachod, in Ernst Cassirer et al., eds., The Renaissance... | |
 | Gary Tomlinson - 1987 - Страниц: 295
...of intellect over will could even be reversed, as when Petrarch, one of the first humanists, wrote, "It is safer to strive for a good and pious will than...will, as it pleases the wise, is to be good; that of intellect is truth. It is better to will the good than to know the truth. "8 This celebration of the... | |
 | Ross Fuller - 1995 - Страниц: 382
...opinions.56 The atmosphere of the expression is distinctive, but how different is Petrarch's message? It is safer to strive for a good and pious will than...capable and clear intellect. The object of the will ... is to be good; that of the intellect is truth. It is better to will the good than to know the truth.... | |
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It is safer to strive for a good and pious will than for a capable and clear intellect. The object of the will, as it pleases the wise, is to be good; that of the intellect is truth. It is better to will the good than to know the truth. 
