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
hyperbole love perpetual speaking
The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love
distribute love proud seek thou
Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly
friendly love maketh
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
either inward love rule
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
love loneliness real-friends
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
impossible love wise
It is impossible to love and be wise
love hyperbole perpetual
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
love men gold
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
beautiful love-is tree
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
skills creative making-love
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
love men tragedy
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
love men secret
There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
god-love appearance cleanliness
God loveth the clean.
love friendly mankind
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.