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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 16

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Communication, Doe, Painting

David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

Knowledge, Perfect, Mind

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Next, Sin, Cleanliness

"Advancement of Learning" by Francis Bacon, (Book II), 1605.

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

Science, Flames, Arrows

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

I believe in deeply ordered chaos

Believe, Chaos, I Believe

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Business, Fall, Fate

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.332

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Leaving, Looks, Slime

"The human zoo" by Gordon Burn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

Work, Want, Excitement

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth, Needs, Fiction

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Library, Shrines, Saint

Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Motivational, Honesty, Fear

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Art, Science, Men

Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.132, Lulu.com

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Two, People, Interesting

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

Crazy, Animal, Mad

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Fear, War

Francis Bacon (1870). “A Conference of Pleasure”, p.34

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Real, Confusion, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Science, Demonstration, Experiments

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.110, Hackett Publishing

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

Self, Portraits, Portraiture

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

Men, Garden, Perfection

Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Adversity, Speech, Prosperity

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.306

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Sloth, Use, Laziness

1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Mean, Science, Madness

Francis Bacon (1813). “The Novum Organum Scientiarum: In Two Parts”, p.2

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Science, Men, Drug

De Erroribus Medicorum

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

Philosophy, Knowledge, Character

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.207

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