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Human Quotes by Francis Bacon
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,…
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
- Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must…
- No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,…
- The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to…
- The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind…
- 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…
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
- The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of…
- The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
- The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion…
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with…
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong