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• I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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  Humanity, Arbitrary, Way

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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  Dark, Arrows, Coward

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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  Hurt, Lying, Ignorance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• Boldness is a child of ignorance

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  Children, Ignorance, Boldness

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

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• Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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  Running, Powerful, Science

  Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.79

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• Riches are for spending.

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  Funny, Money, Riches

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Expense'

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• The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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  Flower, Men, Garden

  Novum Organum 'Aphorisms'

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• Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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  Knowledge, Science, Causes

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.90, Hackett Publishing

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• Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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  Law, Judging, Construction

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.377

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• In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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  Men, Use, Statistics

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.360

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• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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  Thinking, Trying, Quality

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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  Atheist, Miracle, Atheism

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.135

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

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  Food, Progress, Bread

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• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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  Nature, Men, Goodness

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'

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• The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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  Men, Religion, Vicissitudes

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.514

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• It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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  Art, Men, Games

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• Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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  Marriage, Spouse, Enterprise

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• Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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  Discovery, Judgment

  Francis Bacon (1868). “The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works”, p.219

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• The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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  Hope, Science, Logic

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• Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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  Men, Facts, Sides

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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  Wise, Men, Order

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.416

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• This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.253

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• 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.

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  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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