Francis Bacon Quotes
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
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From wonder into wonder existence opens.
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
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[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.
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Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
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To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.
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Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.
