 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 530 pages
...in the midst of these accretions from every source, the Truth, which it is his province to dispense. 'What is truth,' said jesting Pilate, 'and would not stay for an answer.' Wiser and better men than Pilate ask the same question after long, and patient, and loving search.... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...words in his essay " of Truth," gives proof positive of his indifference to it, morally. By saying "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Whereas there is not the slightest foundation in Pilate's conduct, throughout the trial of Jesus, for... | |
 | Evan Whitton - Law - 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... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - Reference - 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... | |
 | Carl Woodring - Education - 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 - Literary Collections - 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...language 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... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 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... | |
 | Diskin Clay - Philosophy - 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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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... 
