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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 20

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants,

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Father, Men, Tyrants

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Communication, Long, Brain

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

God loveth the clean.

God Love, Cleanliness, Appearance

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Holiday, Envy, Well Said

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

Atheist, Real, Hypocrite

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Fear, Mind, Desire

1625 Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Science, Men, Discovery

Novum Organum LXXIII

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Love, Men, Tragedy

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Truth, Sovereign, Human Nature

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Latin, Disease, Remedy

Essays "Of Seditions and Troubles" (1625)

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

Taken, Science, Apples

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Horse, Mean, Men

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.361

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Science, Men, Thinking

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Fall, Knowledge, Angel

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

Country, Travel, Home

Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.185

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Science, Differences, Tree

Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Art, Painting, Painter

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Truth, Naked, Daylight

Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Rain, Garden, Rivers

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Time, Ancient, Latter

Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.269

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Lying, Taken, Men

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Knowledge

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Powerful, Passion, Wine

"Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

War, Blow, Causes

Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.191

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Death, Cry, Born

"Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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