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
prayer believe law
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
atheist light miracle
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
art science vexation
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
excess charity
In charity there is no excess.
freedom facts doe
I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
mother father men
There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."
hills ifs
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
time
Time is the author of authors.
people revolution common
Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.
men young young-man
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
friendship grief joy
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
art painting
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
death children fear
Men 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.
philosophy men mind
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.