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
luxury silence fool
Silence is the virtue of fools.
inspirational motivational best-effort
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
life angel men
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
fashion art realizing
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
truth science scientist
Science is but an image of the truth.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
atheist philosophy men
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
beauty infinite sensible
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
opportunity thieves
Opportunity makes a thief.