 ... 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.  The Theosophist - Pàgina 5111891Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pàgines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights . . . But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved...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... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pàgines
...biblical and classical citations to support the argument that truth is ethically equivalent to 'the good': But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved...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... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pàgines
...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 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, are the sovereign good... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pàgines
...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 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, are the sovereign good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...spake of before. But howsoever1 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only doth judge itself, teacheth...lovemaking 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... | |
 | Peter Johannes Thuesen - 2002 - 257 pàgines
...opposition to Scripture's popularization; Bacon's was more philosophical: Howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet Truth...that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and the wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pàgines
...Judgements, and Affections, yet Truth, which onely doth judge it selfe, teacheth, that the Inquirie of Truth, which is the Love-making, or Wooing of it; The knowledge of 40 Truth, which is the Presence of it; and the Beleefe of Truth, which is the Enjoying of it; is the... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pàgines
...(New Haven, 1997) Chapter Eleven The Pursuit of Truth "The inquiry of truth," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, "which is the lovemaking 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... | |
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