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
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
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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 it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us
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Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use
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Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
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Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.