Francis Bacon Quotes
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.
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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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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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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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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.
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.