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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 17

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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.

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.

Believe, Mind, Atheism

Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Nature, Smell, Yield

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.509

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Inspirational, Friendship, Grief

1625 Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Men, Judging, Merit

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Nature, Science, Overcoming

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Witty, Integrity, Judging

"Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral".

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

Failure, Math, May

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

Peace, Fighting, Cutting

Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.372

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Science, Men, Hair

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.498

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Lying, Light, Triumph

Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

Mean, Science, Men

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Philosophy, Men, Progress

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Daughter, Mother, Religion

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Time, Powerful, Ideas

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Voice, Weight, Chance

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

It is natural to die as to be born.

Death, Dying, Natural

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Men, Vanity, Should Have

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Lying, Illustration, Mystery

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Christian, Anger, Sins Not

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Depressing, Men, Hands

Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.310

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Believe, Men, Belief

'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Science, Men, Order

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Teacher, Names, Monument

Francis Bacon (1753). “The Works...”, p.37

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Christian, Religious, Law

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy, Doubt, Overcoming Doubt

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