 WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting: and, though the sects of philosophers of...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Pagina 1door Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pagina’s
...as much as he could without losing the power to resist them at all. FRANCIS BACON. ESSAYS/ OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.1 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pagina’s
...This elaboration contrasts with the much more economical, yet rhetorical, style of Sir Francis Bacon. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. . . . The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying... | |
 | Maxwell Steer - 1996 - 192 pagina’s
...Richardson, Penguin UK. 1959 quoted in Tucker Dreaming a'if/i O;VM Eyes. 2. Knowledge and Individuation "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. The riddle at the heart of opening sentence of Bacon's Essay on Truth has preoccupied thinkers since... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625). 7 What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625).... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - 1998 - 244 pagina’s
...undoubtedly deserves a little more human sympathy than he has received so far. Chapter 21 Francis Bacon "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. (From Bacon's Essay on Truth) The mystery of Francis Bacon begins with his birth itself. It has frequently... | |
 | Evan Whitton - 1998 - 260 pagina’s
...Chancellor, knew the quibble was merely an attempt to shift the goalposts. In Of Truth (1597), he wrote: '"What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Pilate was sent to Rome in 36 to answer to the Emperor Tiberius for wretched behaviour. His end is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pagina’s
...as a 'metaphysical' poem is read. 'Of Truth' begins with one of Bacon's most striking quotations. ' "What is Truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' As Anne Righter comments: The rifle-shot of this opening, the little imaginative explosion, is a familiar... | |
 | Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 pagina’s
...Derrida always corrupts to paidia, play, linguistic pastime. If Bacon on truth would be too harsh— "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" — then in keeping with Kant's description of the aesthetic as disinterested free play of taste, Derrida... | |
 | Tom Tymoczko, Jim Henle - 2004 - 670 pagina’s
...standard against which to check the technical definitions. FO RM AL LO GIC: O VERVI EW TRUTH AND FALSITY What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — FRANCIS BACON The simple statement "Joan is female" is true (often abbreviated T) if and only if... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pagina’s
...it, I could keep to the truth and let God go. Meister Eckhart, Fragments ( 1 3th- 14th centuries) 13 What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon, Essays, 'Of Truth' (1625) 14 Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put... | |
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