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
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.
atheist real hypocrite
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
inspirational children reality
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
friendship real solitude
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
real confusion darkness
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
real passion heart
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
real faithful mind
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
true-friend real solitude
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
real mean eye
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.
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.
real conceited use
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
real mountain weight
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
fashion art realizing
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
friends-or-friendship sincere solitude worst
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.