 TRUTH. 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...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 1by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 pages
...which at once arrest and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief." And a modern critic would fancy he was clever in catching up the author, and telling him that Pilate... | |
 | Maxwell Steer - 1996 - 192 pages
...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 pages
...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).... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...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... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - 1998 - 244 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | Diskin Clay - 2010 - 340 pages
...another matter " * Such endings to philosophical conversations recall the opening of Bacon's essay "On Truth": "What is truth, said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." These early Socratic dialogues are usually termed the "aporetic" dialogues. (Because of its omilarity... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...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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