 ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.  Buchanan's Journal of Man - Стр. 2501850Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - Страниц: 790
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which ia the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - Страниц: 620
...have Truth on his side; Int it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth. ' The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it.' 1 This love-making or wooing of Truth implies that first step towards attaining the establishment of... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - Страниц: 964
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - Страниц: 300
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - Страниц: 802
...success, " the inquiry of truth," as Lord Bacon finely observes, " which is the love-making, or wooing of it — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — being the sovereign good of human nature." Those words have the ring of a morality at once healthy,... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - Страниц: 736
...military achievements, none to the literary or the philosophical. But in the essay "Of Truth" he writes: "The inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the praise of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - Страниц: 278
...men alike" (Plato, Laws 730). "Add truth to life, and you get happiness" (Augustine, Sermons 306.9). "The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite... | |
 | John Forrester - 1997 - Страниц: 230
...always be on the side of truth, not lies or fantasies. Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Francis Bacon, Of Truth We have seen how the absolute prohibition on lying of the moralist philosophers... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - Страниц: 594
...to crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. ... ';2 splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - Страниц: 594
...effort to crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. . ";e splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual... | |
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