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
attitude thyself
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
friendship thieves
Friends are thieves of time.
loss hands years
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
kings knowledge thinking
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
teacher names monument
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
men statistics use
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
cat england deceit
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
believe people want
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
believe thinking media
I think of myself as a kind of pulverizing machine into which everything I look at and feel is fed. I believe that I am different from the mixed-media jackdaws who use photographs etc. more or less literally.
writing dust water
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
time artist years
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
reality matter traps
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
patterns canvas painting
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
painting nervous paint
We only have our nervous system to paint.