Francis Bacon Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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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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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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