Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon
“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.”
“All things appear incredible to us, as they differ more or less from our own manners. — Utopia, Bk 2. (1516)”
“There’s also a rule in the Council that no resolution can be debated on the day that it’s first proposed. All discussion is postponed until the next well-attended meeting. Otherwise someone’s liable to say the first thing that comes into this head, and then start thinking up arguments to justify what he has said, instead of trying to decide what’s best for the community. That type of person is quite prepared to sacrifice the public to his own prestige, just because, absurd as it may sound, he’s ashamed to admit that his first idea might have been wrong – when his first idea should have been to think before he spoke.”
“Jamás conocerán los hombres el bienestar bajo un régimen de comunidad de bienes. ¿Por qué medios se podrá conseguir la prosperidad común si todos se niegan a trabajar? Nadie tendrá un estímulo personal, y la confianza en que todos trabajan le hará perezoso. Por otra parte, si la miseria subleva los espíritus y ya no es posible adquirir nada como propio, ¿no caerá la sociedad de modo fatal y constante en la rebelión y la venganza? Si, además, desaparece la autoridad de los jueces y el temor saludable que inspiran, ¿qué papel pueden tener en la sociedad hombres para quienes no existiría ninguna diferencia social? Es algo que ni siquiera me atrevo a imaginar.”
“that men are more effectively drawn together by goodwill than by pacts, by hearts rather than by words.”
“there are no adequate provisions to prevent it. Against this, the Utopians hold that no one is an enemy if he has caused no actual harm, that the shared bonds of nature are every bit as strong as a treaty, and”
“unless you consider it just for the worst sort of people to have the best living conditions, or unless you're prepared to call a country prosperous, in which all the wealth is owned by a tiny minority - who aren't entirely happy even so, while everyone else is simply miserable.”
topics: philosophy
“Kui keegi omaenda otsusel ja ilma loata oma elupaiga piiridest välja läheb ja ilma valitseja kirjata tabatakse, siis tuuakse ta kui pageja suure häbi ja teotusega tagasi ja nuheldakse karmilt.”
“Yasaları çiğnemeden mutluluğu aramak en akıllıca davranıştır. Utopialılar için herkesin iyiliğine çalışmaksa bir dindir. Kendi rahatını sağlamaya çalışırken başkasını rahatından etmek haksızlığın kendisidir.”
topics: utopia
“Kanlı bir zaferin kazançları Utopialıları üzer, hatta utandırır; çünkü parlak kazançları insan kanı pahasına elde etmeyi büyük bir çılgınlık sayarlar. Onlar için en şanlı zafer,düşmanı oyun düzen gücüyle yenmektir. İşte yalnız o zaman büyük bayramlar yapar; yiğitlikleriyle övünür, anıtlar dikerler. Onlar için yiğitlik düşmanının akıl yoluyla yenmektir. Böyle bir zaferi hayvanlar kazanamaz, yalnız insan kazanır.”
topics: utopia
“Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?”
topics: utopia
“Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.”
topics: värt-att-minnas
“Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing.”
“İnsanın en büyük dalkavuğu kendisidir, bu dalkavukluktan kurtulmanın en iyi yolu da bir dostun içtenliğidir.”
“Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.”
topics: om-vilja-och-hopp
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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.