Francis Bacon Quotes
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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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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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 errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.