 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...which at once arrest and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief." And a modern critic would fancy he was clever in catching up the author, and telling him that Pilate... | |
 | Maxwell Steer - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...Richardson, Penguin UK. 1959 quoted in Tucker Dreaming a'if/i O;VM Eyes. 2. Knowledge and Individuation "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. The riddle at the heart of opening sentence of Bacon's Essay on Truth has preoccupied thinkers since... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 666
...FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625). 7 What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625).... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 613
...This elaboration contrasts with the much more economical, yet rhetorical, 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; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...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... | |
 | Evan Whitton - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...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... | |
 | Carl Woodring - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...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 - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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... | |
 | Diskin Clay - 2010 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...another 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... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 389
...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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TRUTH. 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... 
