Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
