Francis Bacon Quotes
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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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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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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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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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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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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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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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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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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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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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.