 | 1858 - 894 pages
...intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon s;iid, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...by the knowledge which science and education shed on every relation of his being, what a vast expansion, what a wondrous elevation is he capable of attaining... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck, Christiana C. Hankin - 1858 - 576 pages
...importance and value of this habit of accuracy in my father ! PART V. 1792—1793. " Truth, which doth only judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." — BACOR. " And a sign shall be mercifully given to the doubt of love, which shall be refused to the... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
.... But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...good': But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 pages
...success, " the inquiry of truth," as Lord Bacon finely observes, " which is the love-making, or wooing of it — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — being the sovereign good of human nature." Those words have the ring of a morality at once healthy,... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pages
...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 human... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...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...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite... | |
 | John Forrester - 1997 - 230 pages
...The benefit of the doubt would always be on the side of truth, not lies or fantasies. Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Francis Bacon, Of Truth We have seen how the absolute prohibition on lying of the moralist philosophers... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pages
...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...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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... 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. 
