Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 26

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• All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

  Francis Bacon

  Race, Earth, Crime

  "Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

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• So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

  Francis Bacon

  Government, Empires, Staff

  "De Sapientia Veterum". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 6: "Pan, sive Natura", 1609.

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• Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Unity, Church

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.513

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• They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Art, Science

  The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II

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• Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Riches, Kindred

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• Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  Francis Bacon

  Wings, White, Dumb

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• Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Names, Stories

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

  Francis Bacon

  Judging, Honor, Succeed

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• For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Hatred, Secret

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.189

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• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Reality, Matter, Structure

  Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

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• Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Museums, Years

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• There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Wonderful, Arise

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

  Francis Bacon

  Luck, Intuition, Stuff

  Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

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• It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

  Francis Bacon

  Paint, Mediums, Extraordinary

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

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• There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

  Francis Bacon

  Superstitions, Avoiding

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Superstition'

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• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Politics, Moral, Fierce

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111

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• I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

  Francis Bacon

  Sweaters, Peculiar, Tools

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• If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, Fuel, Sparks

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.465

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• In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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  Nature, Moving, Science

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.525

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

  Francis Bacon

  Country, School, Language

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Francis Bacon (1987). “Francis Bacon: Retrospektive”

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• Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Use, Grows

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• There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Nature, Light

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

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• I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

  Francis Bacon

  Evil

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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