There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — 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
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them. — 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
