 | American essays - 1886 - 942 pages
...illusions be conducive to happiness. Bacon, it should be noted, takes care to say just afterward, " But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature." So that, after all, the boys might quote the philosopher... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 784 pages
...selfdeception. Adverting to the danger of self-deception, I quoted from Bacon's " Essay on Truth": "'Tis not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the...sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt." \ Jowett replied that he would rather * Jowett seemed to me to be not wholly destitute of sympathy... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...similarity does not seem to me to go any deeper than this. On Bacon and Montaigne see Zeitlin, art. cit. 245 But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. [VI, 378] 'Such as we spake of before' does not in fact refer back to 'lying in first principles' in... | |
 | Thomas Babe - Assassins - 1989 - 72 pages
...in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in it, that doth hurt . . . — Francis Bacon, "Of Truth" (1625) DEMON WINE ACT I SCENE 1 A table, a couple... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...unmixed falsehood. Bacon in "Of Truth" draws an analogous distinction: "It is not the lie that passes through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt," but here again, the "lie" means the falsehood that has been mistaken by the hearer for truth and not... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
..."imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true, we run the risk of self-delusion, 9 for "It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh and settleth in it, that doth the hurt." Rather than happily fall out of memory, Bacon's lie, through... | |
 | Steven C. Ward - Philosophy - 1996 - 196 pages
...must needs be filled with infinite errors and false appearances" (Bacon 1961a, 433). He argued that "it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it" (Bacon 1961b, 378). He compared the mind to "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture"... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - Philosophy - 1996 - 620 pages
...But that magic has done its work. 'It is not the lie that passetti through the mind,' wrote Bacon, 'but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt.'68 The psychological power of what he called a 'false notion, or idol' is all the greater when... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - Books and reading - 1998 - 320 pages
...anführt, um ihn zu modifizieren: One of the Fathers, in great Severity, called Poesie Vinum Daemonum; because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. (2) gleich ganz zur Lüge zu machen. Der Grund, weshalb diese halbe Ehrenrettung der Poesie möglich... | |
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Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it,... 
