 Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain it; If not, then each desire would frustrate be....  The Journal of Speculative Philosophy - Page 3241886Full view - About this book
 | John Theodore Slattery - 1920 - 348 pages
...which baffle us in this life. "Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless Truth illumines it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests...his lair When it attains it and it can attain it." (IV, 125.) In insisting upon the power of the mind to know the truth and to find perfect happiness... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 510 pages
...arrived at in things demonstrable. Dante had this comparison in mind, it may be inferred, when he said, " Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect...unless the Truth illume it . Beyond which nothing true [ie no partial truth] expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair ; When it attains... | |
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