Source: The Great Instauration
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“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”
Source: The Beauties of Bacon
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works
Source: The Great Instauration
“Mysteries are due to secrecy.”
Source: The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay
Source: The Great Instauration
“One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.”
Source: 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
Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:
“Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.”
“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
Source: The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon
“A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.”
Source: Francis Bacon: Retrospektive
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.”
“Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.”
Source: The Major Works
“Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
“The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.”
“Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.”
“For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.”
Source: Translations of the philosophical works
“There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”
Source: Novum Organum
“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”
Source: The Great Instauration