Francis Bacon Quotes
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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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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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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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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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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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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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Reading maketh a full man.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.