"Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity." — Francis Bacon
"Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
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Francis Bacon
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261 Quotes by Francis Bacon
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Knowledge is power.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
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