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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 18

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Hands, Law, Mind

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Witty, Men, Thinking

Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.263

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

People, Looks, Portraiture

Francis Bacon (2005). “Francis Bacon: portraits and heads”, Natl Galleries of Scotland

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Wise, Men, May

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Dispatch'

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Moving, Government, States

Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.445

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Deception, Done, Want

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Love, Hyperbole, Perpetual

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Love'

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

Attitude, Boost Self Esteem, Boost Self Confidence

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Justice, Ears

Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.120

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Stars, Men, Light

"Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience and advancement of learning".

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

Atheist, Heart, Men

Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.371, Oxford University Press, USA

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Revenge, Fear, Grief

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Men, Age, Tasks

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Book, Men, Renovation

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.318

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Art, Modesty, Wells

Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.478

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Age, Plot, Decay

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Perfection, Trying, Nervous

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Inspiration, Needs, Paint

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

Writing, Men, Use

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.536

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Truth, Lying, Adventure

Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Illustration, Drawing, Would Be

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

Artist, Thinking, Expression

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

Thinking, Chance, Painter

Francis Bacon (1983). “フランシス・ベーコン”

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

People, Canvas, Paint

"One continuous accident mounting on top of another" by David Sylvester, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

Art is man added to Nature.

Art, Nature, Men

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