Francis Bacon Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

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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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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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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Opportunity makes a thief.

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