Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon
“But if one shall say, that by that law we are only forbid to kill any except when the laws of the land allow of it, upon the same grounds, laws may be made, in some cases, to allow of adultery and perjury: for God having taken from us the right of disposing either of our own or of other people’s lives, if it is pretended that the mutual consent of men in making laws can authorise man-slaughter in cases in which God has given us no example, that it frees people from the obligation of the divine law, and so makes murder a lawful action, what is this, but to give a preference to human laws before the divine?”
“for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?’ “While”
“When I consider and weigh in my mind all these commonwealths, which nowadays anywhere do flourish . . . I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth.”
“Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.”
“Ta hãy can đảm nhìn nhận thực tế, bạn sẽ không bao giờ có một cuộc sống bình thường được nữa. Bạn chỉ là mối phiền hà cho người khác và một gánh nặng cho chính bạn - thực tế là bạn tồn tại nhưng chẳng khác gì đã chết. Vậy tại sao phải tiếp tục nằm đây cho vi trùng đục ruỗng mình nữa? Cuộc đời đã khốn khổ đến vậy, sao còn nấn ná làm chi? Bạn đang là tù nhân trong một phòng tra tấn, sao không vượt thoát ra ngoài để tìm về một cõi tốt lành hơn? Chỉ cần bạn ngỏ lời, chúng tôi sẽ thu xếp cho bạn được giải thoát. Lẽ thường ai chẳng muốn được nhẹ nhàng.”
“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”
“That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there. But I was sadly conscious that up to now I had never found the secret of drawing it forth. However, come what might, I should have done with suspense and bring matters to a head tonight. She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.”
“Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life.”
“Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.”
topics: money
“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”
topics: study
“Slander boldly, something always sticks [Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret]”
“Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.”
topics: love
“Quien no quiere pensar es un fanático; quien no puede pensar es un idiota; quien no osa pensar es un cobarde.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
“ ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
“… for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the earth: the former because the appetite of union of dense bodies with the earth, in respect of the distance, is more dull: the latter, because the body hath in part attained its nature when it is some depth in the earth. { (1687)}”
topics: earth , force , gravitation , gravity , isaac-newton , newton , physics , probably , science , universal-law-of-gravitation
“L'amicizia supera in questo la parentela: nella parentela l'affetto si può eliminare, nell'amicizia no; infatti, tolto l'affetto viene meno l'amicizia stessa, la parentela rimane.”
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Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621.
There are some scholars who believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel The New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, in the Pacific Ocean west of Peru. He envisioned a land where there would be greater rights for women, the abolishing of slavery, elimination of debtors' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of religious and political expression. Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland.
Thomas Jefferson considered Francis Bacon to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived, "Bacon, Locke and Newton" were "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilized his writings in their own belief systems.