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Francis Bacon Quotes about Life

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life, Education, Teacher

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Life, Beauty, Beautiful

"ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Life, Success, Time

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Life, Change, Philosophical

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Inspirational, Life, Choices

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life, Art, Winning

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life, Angel, Men

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Life, Fall, Angel

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Life, Way

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Life, Birthday, Age

"The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Life, Nature, Travel

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

Time is the greatest innovator.

Life, Time, Innovation

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Life, Philosophy, Science

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