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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 25

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Men, World

Francis Bacon (1871). “A Harmony of the Essays, Etc. of Francis Bacon”, p.262

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Science, Body, Matter

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.227

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Wise, Men, Imagination

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

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Change, Science, Omnipotence

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Nature, Revenge, Science

The Advancement of Learning Bk VI, Ch. 3

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Reflection, Praise, Virtue

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.374

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Believe, Men, Light

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

Philosophy, Believe, Miracle

Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Time, Knowledge, Knows

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Discourse'

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Memories, Humor, Men

Francis Bacon (1962). “Works”

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Atheist, Nature, Light

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Art, Freedom, Doe

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

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Paint, Mediums, Extraordinary

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

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Running, Weed, Nature

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Men, Debtors, Occupation

Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Nature, Air, Smell

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Want, Chance, Accidents

Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Men, Hatred, Secret

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.189

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Race, Earth, Crime

"Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

Reality, Matter, Structure

Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Country, School, Language

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Politics, Moral, Fierce

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111

Man was formed for society.

Men, Society

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Government, Empires, Staff

"De Sapientia Veterum". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 6: "Pan, sive Natura", 1609.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

Artist, Museums, Years

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