my good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. The Works of John Locke - الصفحة 271بواسطة John Locke - 1823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 808
...the student, much has been accomplished, for as John Locke said, the love of truth for truth's own sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world and the seed plot of all other virtues. The attainment of this desirable attitude of mind by any individual... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...English translation of the Dictionary, in 5 vols, folio, with "many passages restored," appeared in 1734. principal part of human perfection in this world,...; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody." 1 The Discourse does no discredit to this uncommon encomium, being a luminous... | |
| Harald Høffding - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...his death to a young friend, afterwards the Deistic writer Anthony Collins, are characteristic : " To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." (£) The Origin of Ideas Since Locke's intention is to call human knowledge to account, his first task... | |
| James Henry Snowden - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...Buy the truth and sell it not." " The truth is always right," said Sophocles, and John Locke wrote: " To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part...this world, and the seedplot of all other virtues." Purity on its negative side is freedom from imperfection, especially from moral stain, and on its positive... | |
| 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...pages of history. Lies fly like the wind, truth travels like the tortoise and the snail. Locke says : "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed plant of all other virtues." "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again ; The eternal years of Gorl... | |
| William A. Murrill - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine. Locke To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal part...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. Locke Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. Shakespeare... | |
| Harald Høffding - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...his death to a young friend, afterwards the Deistic writer Anthony Collins, are characteristic : " To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." (b) The Origin of Ideas Since Locke's intention is to call human knowledge to account, his first task... | |
| 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...must, if he expects to become really great, worship the truth for its own sake. As Locke nobly wrote, "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world and the seed plot of all other virtues. 11 Let the historian be cynical and skeptical about all else, in this... | |
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