Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Men Quotes

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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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 doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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