Francis Bacon Quotes
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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The obliteration of the evil hath been practised by two means, some kind of redemption or expiation of that which is past, and an inception or account de novo for the time to come. But this part seemeth sacred and religious, and justly; for all good moral philosophy (as was said) is but a handmaid to religion.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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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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Science is but an image of the truth.
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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'You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God' This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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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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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.