Francis Bacon Quotes

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Francis Bacon Quotes

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Creative

“Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.”

Men Science Discovery

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Courageous

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”

Children Wife Virtue

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Philosophical

“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”

Philosophy Atheism

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Philosophical

“Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.”

Science Nature

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Wise

“All will come out in the washing.”

Cleanliness Washing

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Calm

“The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.”

Letting Go Dirty

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Angry

“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”

Worst Rebellion

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Spiritual

“I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.”

Believe Mind Atheism

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Grateful

“For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.”

Book Looks True Friend

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Wise

“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”

Men Hurt Health

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Philosophical

“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.”

Science Discovery New Work

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Wise

“I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.”

Artist Feelings Passion

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