 ... 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.  The British Prose Writers - Page 81821Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of the sense; the last was the light of... | |
 | Peter Johannes Thuesen - History - 2002 - 257 pages
...only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and the wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 56 Eadie's implication in juxtaposing the two epigraphs might have been boiled down to a syllogism:... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...(New Haven, 1997) Chapter Eleven The Pursuit of Truth "The inquiry of truth," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, "which is the lovemaking or wooing of it, the knowledge...the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."1 During the Renaissance, most scholars in Europe had thought that all truth about the natural... | |
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