Francis Bacon Quotes, Love Quotes, Inquiry Quotes

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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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.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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