 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...read 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 linle imaginative explosion, is a familiar... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...attractively expressed, but not so much for a coherent philosophy.) The 'Essays' have striking beginnings. - 'What is Truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. ['Of Truth'] - A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. ['Of Youth... | |
 | Antonio Cassesse, Lal Chand Vohrah - Law - 2003 - 1068 pages
...roles. While the search for the truth would proceed, as in a court, by way of presentations by victim 17 "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer". The complex philosophical discourse generated by the term, recalled in this Biblical reference in Francis... | |
 | F. H. Buckley - Law - 2005 - 260 pages
...extreme, however. Like Bacon's Pilate, it rejects all commonly accepted beliefs about the world, "\\liat is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."" An extreme cynicism may also affect a pose of indifference to social norms, including those enforced... | |
 | History - 2003 - 326 pages
...becomes the truth. Josef Goebbels O The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. Oscar Wilde O "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon O History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't... | |
 | Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 258 pages
...ultimately purified. Bacon writes these words in his essay "Of Truth," which begins with a famous sentence: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." This refers, of course, to a dramatic moment in the eighteenth chapter of John's Gospel. When Jesus... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 384 pages
...Bacon, but upon consideration, we can see that there really was a radical difference between them. "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer," is the wellknown opening of the essay. Bacon goes on to reflect on why it should be that people avoid... | |
 | William Domnarski - Law - 2009 - 221 pages
...his derelictions, for no one could outdo him. I often think of the opening lines of his first essay, 'Of Truth': 'What is truth' said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' I wonder if Pilate could have gotten an answer by staying?"82 The temptation is to say that Jackson... | |
 | Patrick Collinson - Religion - 2006 - 314 pages
...heresy.29 The century had turned before Francis Bacon in his essay Of Truth wrote his famous lir\e: 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer'. But the sixteenth century was already familiar with Bacon's answerless question. It appears that when... | |
 | Linda Costanzo Cahir - Performing Arts - 2014 - 317 pages
...Plays on Film 270 Glossary of Film and Literary Terms 28 1 Bibliography 297 Foreword by James M. Welsh "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. — Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Truth" In reviewing Edward Champlin's biography of Nero (Harvard University... | |
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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... 
