Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
horrific
You can't be more horrific than life itself,
passion artist despair
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,
knowledge accomplishment age
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
knowledge mean divorce
By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
knowledge mind matter
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
witty men thinking
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
art men self
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
book men renovation
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
party men cunning-man
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
doctrine cleanliness carefulness
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
wings white dumb
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
cleanliness washing
All will come out in the washing.
next sin cleanliness
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
god-love appearance cleanliness
God loveth the clean.