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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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• Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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  Lying, Light, Triumph

  Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

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• An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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  Firsts, Facts, Form

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

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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  Trust, Betrayal, Adversity

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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• Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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  Dream, Winter, Astrology

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• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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  Men, Doubt, Littles

  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.348

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• Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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  Men, Liberty, Speech

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”

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• Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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  Justice, Care, Next

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.569

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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  Artist, Thinking, People

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• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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  Mean, Self, Fancy

  1620 Novum Organum.

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• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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  Power, Too Much, Authority

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

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  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, Overcoming Doubt

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• ...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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  Science, Invention, Knows

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.183

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• It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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  Science, Discovery, New Work

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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  Looks, Return, Painting

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• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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  Feelings, Special, Emotion

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• There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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  Friendship, Littles, World

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Followers and Friends'

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• Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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  Dream, Men, Vanity

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Real, Mountain, Weight

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• Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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  Stars, Philosophy, Light

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.186

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• For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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  Men, Disease, Behavior

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• It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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  Men, Doors, Hospitality

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.170

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• There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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  Inspirational, Wells, Greater

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.332

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• Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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  Men, Consistency, Looks

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