 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 páginas
...(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...the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."1 During the Renaissance, most scholars in Europe had thought that all truth about the natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 páginas
...before. But howsoever0 these things are thus in men's depraved0 judgments0 and affections,0 yet truth,0 which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief0 of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature0... | |
 | Cassandra L. Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, Robert F. Almeder - 2003 - 292 páginas
...very sad. For "Howsoever these things are ... in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." Thus Francis Bacon, who noticed how "factitious despair" of the possibility of finding things out "cuts... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 páginas
...his essay on truth, associates truth with light and speaks of truth itself teaching that 'the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it,...the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature'.18 In his essay on beauty, Bacon associates beauty, in its positive sense, with virtue, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2007 - 157 páginas
...in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed... | |
 | V. David Schwantes - 2007 - 497 páginas
...we talk about caveat emptor — let the buyer beware. Beware of what? Beware of untruth, of course! Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Sir Francis Bacon In our quest for wealth, our crusade for greater money, power, status and fame, we... | |
 | 538 páginas
...crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. The 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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But howsoever these things are 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 is the presence of it,... 
