Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon
“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?”
“Throughout the island they wear the same sort of clothes, without any other distinction except what is necessary to distinguish the two sexes and the married and unmarried. ”
“If any man imagines that there is a real happiness in these enjoyments, he must then confess that he would be the happiest of all men if he were to lead his life in perpetual hunger, thirst, and itching, and, by consequence, in perpetual eating, drinking, and scratching himself; which any one may easily see would be not only a base, but a miserable, state of a life. ”
“Hạnh phúc là một phần thưởng lớn mà ai cũng thích và chỉ có thể có được nhờ phẩm hạnh. Mà phẩm hạnh thì họ định nghĩa là làm theo những thôi thúc tự nhiên như chính Thượng đế muốn ta làm như vậy. Nó bao gồm cả việc nghe theo cái bản năng hợp lý trong những cái thích và không thích của chúng ta. Vì lý lẽ cũng dạy chúng ta trước hết phải kính yêu Thượng đế toàn năng, người đã cho chúng ta cuộc sống và khả năng được hưởng hạnh phúc, và thứ nữa là phải biết vui hưởng cuộc sống này và giúp đồng loại cũng được như vậy.”
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“primer lugar, la mayoría de los príncipes piensan y se ocupan más de los asuntos militares, de los que nada sé ni quiero saber, que del buen gobierno de la paz. Lo que les importa es saber cómo adquirir -con buenas o malas artes- nuevos dominios, sin preocuparse para nada de gobernar bien los que ya tienen. Por otra parte, hay consejeros de príncipes tan doctos que no necesitan -o al menos creen no necesitar- los consejos de otra persona. Parásitos como son, aceptan a”
“There are also, without their towns, places appointed near some running water for killing their beasts and for washing away their filth, which is done by their slaves; for they suffer none of their citizens to kill their cattle, because they think that pity and good-nature, which are among the best of those affections that are born with us, are much impaired by the butchering of animals; nor do they suffer anything that is foul or unclean to be brought within their towns, lest the air should be infected by ill-smells, which might prejudice their health. In every street there are great halls, that lie at an equal distance from each other, distinguished by particular names. ”
“They have had great disputes among themselves, whether one chosen by them to be a priest would not be thereby qualified to do all the things that belong to that character, even though he had no authority derived from the Pope,”
“He is an unskilful physician that cannot cure one disease without casting his patient into another. ”
“Con frecuencia me he encontrado en otras partes este tipo de mentes absurdas, soberbias y retrógradas”
“only, in the first place, they serve the Prince, the Chief Priest, the Tranibors, the Ambassadors, and strangers, if there are any, which, indeed, falls out but seldom, and for whom there are houses, well furnished, particularly appointed for their reception when they come among them. ”
“when I compare with them so many other nations that are still making new laws, and yet can never bring their constitution to a right regulation; where, notwithstanding every one has his property, yet all the laws that they can invent have not the power either to obtain or preserve it, or even to enable men certainly to distinguish what is their own from what is another’s, of which the many lawsuits that every day break out, and are eternally depending, give too plain a demonstration—when,”
“that none might factiously aspire to public employments, which ought neither to be sold nor made burdensome by a great expense, since otherwise those that serve in them would be tempted to reimburse themselves by cheats and violence, and it would become necessary to find out rich men for undergoing those employments,”
“(…) El rey está más seguro en su trono cuando el pueblo no goza de demasiada riqueza y libertad, pues cuando hay estas cosas, los hombres no obedecen de buen grado las leyes duras e injustas; Por otra parte, la necesidad y la pobreza abaten su audacia haciéndolos sumisos a la fuerza”
“Fear of want, no doubt, makes every living creature greedy and rapacious, and man, besides, develops these qualities out of sheer pride, which glories in getting ahead of others by a superfluous display of possessions.”
“It's better to have enough of what we really need than an abundance of superfluities.”
“for the whole country is full of soldiers, still kept up in time of peace (if such a state of a nation can be called a peace);”
“isa'nın usta sözcüleri ...; insanların kötü alışkanlıklarını hristiyanlığa uydurmaktan kaçındıklarını görünce, incil'i insanların kötü alışkanlıklarına göre eğip büktüler. bu ustaca manevra nereye götürdü onları? insanların vicdan rahatlığıyla kötülük edebilmelerini sağlamış oldular.”
“must, even among Christians, give over pressing the greatest part of those things that Christ hath taught us, though He has commanded us not to conceal them, but to proclaim on the housetops that which He taught in secret. The greatest parts of His precepts are more opposite to the lives of the men of this age than any part of my discourse has been, but the preachers seem to have learned that craft to which you advise me: for they, observing that the world would not willingly suit their lives to the rules that Christ has given, have fitted His doctrine, as if it had been a leaden rule, to their lives, that so, some way or other, they might agree with one another. But I see no other effect of this compliance except it be that men become more secure in their wickedness by it;”
“«Esto es lo que siempre hicieron nuestros mayores. Ya podíamos nosotros igualar su sabiduría». Al decir esto, zanjan toda discusión y se sienten felices. Les parece mal que alguien sea más sabio que los antepasados. Cierto que todos estamos dispuestos a aceptar todo lo bueno que nos han legado en herencia. Pero con el mismo rigor sostenemos que hay que aceptar y mantener lo que vemos debe mudarse. Con frecuencia me he encontrado en otras partes este tipo de mentes absurdas, soberbias y retrógradas.”
“...Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”
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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.