 ... 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.  Representative English Essays - Page 17by Warner Taylor - 1923 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 pages
...aspiration of manhood ; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human, nature. MAGICIANS AND WITCH FOLK. FASCINATION, saith Henry Cornelius Agrippa, in the fiftieth chapter of his... | |
 | 1912 - 502 pages
...cannot therefore be conveniently compared with the other materials. DCIDS ana Dotes. " Truth, which doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. — BACON. THE subjects for discussion at the Stomatology Section of the International Congress of... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...support the argument that truth is ethically equivalent to 'the good': But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet...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 - Electronic journals - 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 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 - Fiction - 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... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Philosophy - 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 - Philosophy - 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... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...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;...enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon, who perfected the essay form in English on the French model of Montaigne, used his writing to... | |
 | Hans J. Eysenck - Psychology - 238 pages
...already. All believe in "inquiring into truth," which, as Francis Bacon said, "is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the...presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the engaging of it, in the sovereign good of human nature." This belief in the importance of searching... | |
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