Francis Bacon Quotes

654 quotes · Philosopher, Statesman

Page 27 of 50

Francis Bacon Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Grateful Spiritual 654 quotes · page 27 of 50

Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Funny

“Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.”

Men Dream Vanity

♥ 5

Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.”

Men Business Sovereign

♥ 5

Philosophical

“Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.”

Marriage Enterprise

♥ 5

Courageous

“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”

Strength Armor

♥ 5

Philosophical

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Science Nature Knowledge

♥ 5

Philosophical

“I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.”

Science Taken Knowledge

♥ 5

Philosophical

“Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.”

Art Secret

♥ 5

Philosophical

“Art is man added to Nature.”

Men Art

♥ 5

Creative

“If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.”

Looks Painting Return

♥ 5

Philosophical

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”

Lying Light Triumph

♥ 5

Philosophical

“The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.”

Men Light Stars

♥ 5

Philosophical

“The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”

Knowing Knowledge Essentials

♥ 5