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
art order desire
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
lying illustration mystery
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
depressing men hands
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
bees juice amber
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
men vices would-be
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
men riches kindred
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
advice ought
He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
motivational hands mold
The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
usa liberty debt
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
atheism tears crocodiles
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
persistence fire clay
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
eye green grass
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
writing men use
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
weakness lasts cords
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.