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" 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 by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 13
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...not believe that the Truth — Nature's answer — is attainable, if they will but wait to be taught. What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Thus, then, the Essays contain an abridgment of Bacon's life, the essence of his manners, his morals,...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...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...
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The World's Most Mysterious People

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...
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The Cartel: Lawyers and Their Nine Magic Tricks

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...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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...
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Literature: An Embattled Profession

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...
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The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature ...

David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...PROPHET OF THE NEW SCIENCE In establishing any true axiom the negative instance is the more powerful. "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Men fear death, as children fear to go into the dark. — Francis Bacon Francis Bacon (1561-1626) possessed...
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall

Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...appears also in the dramatic opening sentences that startle the reader into so many of the essays: 'What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; And would not stay for an Answer' (I. 3-4); 'Revenge is a kinde of Wilde Justice; which the more Mans Nature runs to, the more ought...
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Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher

Diskin Clay - 2010 - 340 pages
...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...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

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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