 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pàgines
...philosophy is secular and rationalistic, he makes an eloquent and apparently sincere disclaimer of unbelief. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds... | |
 | Wolfgang-Dieter Baur - 1991 - 412 pàgines
...thought was taken from Bacon, 'who applies it to more serious enquiries.' See Essay xvi, 'Of Atheism': It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in pilosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion." Zum Verhältnis von Kritik und Bibelautorität bei... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pàgines
...silence at the stars. WALT WHITMAN (1819-921. US poet. When 1 Heard the Leam'd Astronomer. ATHEISM 1 I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a Mind. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Atheism" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pàgines
...stay for an answer." Or on death: "Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark." Or on atheism: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Consider the opening line of the essay on gardens, in lighter vein but bearing again that touch of... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pàgines
...is but the handmaid to religion.6 In his treatise entitled, Of Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon declared: A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.7 Sir Francis Bacon, as recorded in the Literary and Religious Works of Francis Bacon, Volume... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...DONNE, (c. 1572-1631) British divine, metaphysical poet. "The Progress of the Soul," St. 52. Atheism 1 I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1997 - 370 pàgines
...Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath (London, Longman, 1861), Essay 16 ("Of Atheism"), vol. 6, p. 413: "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth man's mind about to religion." Mendelssohn's Philosophische Schriften Third dialogue Numesian and Kallisthen... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. 695 Essays 'Of Atheism' the Raven, 'Nevermore'. POGREBIN Letty Cottin 8812...don't make passes at female smart-asses. 8813 No l religlon. 696 Essays 'Of Atheism' They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 pàgines
...further living proof of his wisdom and munificence. Francis Bacon expressed the general faith in 1612: 'I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...frame is without a Mind ... It is true that a little [natural] philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 pàgines
...contemporary Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis once said that Franklin was fond of quoting Bacon's claim that "a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy brings the man's mind about to religion." (Cited in Aldridge, Benjamin Franklin and Nature's God, p.... | |
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I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
