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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 26

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

Stars, Roots, Together

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Education, Art, Science

The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Wings, White, Dumb

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Mind, Wonderful, Arise

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

Cutting, Old Things, Tools

Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Sweaters, Peculiar, Tools

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Wise, Simple, Men

Francis Bacon (1949). “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon”

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Science, Roots, Evil

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Wise, Children, Mean

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Communication, Men, Suffering

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.286

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Men, Use, Grows

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Evil

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Men, Riches, Kindred

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Atheist, Philosophy, Men

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Nature, Garden, Firsts

Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Superstitions, Avoiding

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Superstition'

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

Fire, Fuel, Sparks

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.465

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Men, Unity, Church

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.513

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Nature, Moving, Science

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.525

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

Nature, Science, History

Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

Art, Thinking, Trying

Francis Bacon (1987). “Francis Bacon: Retrospektive”

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Execution, Blind, Danger

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Judging, Honor, Succeed

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

Luck, Intuition, Stuff

Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Book, Names, Stories

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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