Francis BaconTruth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie… ▶372PhilosophyPoliticsTruth
Francis BaconScience is but an image of the truth.372Truth
Francis BaconThe worst solitude is to have no real friendships. ✨ Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1860). The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition, p.306372Hope
Francis BaconFor the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed. ✨ Collected Works of Francis Bacon.351Sadness
Francis BaconI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, … ▶352PhilosophyThoughtTruth
Francis BaconMoney is a great servant but a bad master.341Thought
Francis BaconThe partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dime… ▶353Truth
Francis BaconThe desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.364Politics
Francis BaconMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ✨ Essays Of Death (1625)353Death
Francis BaconWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ✨ 1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.342Love
Francis BaconThe root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.331Time
Francis BaconWho ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.331Hope
Francis BaconIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted365Politics
Francis BaconIt is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. ✨ 'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'343ThoughtTruth
Francis Baconthe serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.376Time
Francis BaconThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. ✨ 1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism10.343Time
Francis BaconThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ✨ 'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'354Hope
Francis BaconIt 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. ✨ Francis Bacon (1778). The Works of Francis B… ▶376Politics
Francis BaconIf a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. ✨ Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). A critique of Bacon's Novum Organum, by Basil Montagu, extracted from the … ▶321Love
Francis BaconChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.332Life
Francis BaconReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ✨ Essays Of Studies (1625)354DeathReading
Francis BaconThe only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.355Humanity
Francis BaconFor many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, witho… ▶377Philosophy
Francis BaconThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.355PhilosophyThought
Francis BaconThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.377Philosophy
Francis BaconIt is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. ✨ Francis Bacon (1813). The Novu… ▶356Death
Francis BaconThe worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.312Truth
Francis BaconSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.323Reading
Francis BaconRebellions of the belly are the worst. ✨ Francis Bacon (2014). The Essays of Francis Bacon, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc334Life
Francis BaconIt is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ✨ 'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'334DeathSadness
