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Francis Bacon QUOTES

81 " Algunos libros son probados, otros devorados, poquísimos masticados y digeridos. "

― Francis Bacon

82 " ...the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it. "

― Francis Bacon , The New Organon

83 " The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration. "

― Francis Bacon

84 " Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations? "

― Francis Bacon

85 " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? "

― Francis Bacon , The Essays

86 " La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado. "

― Francis Bacon

87 " La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso más alto es el peor amueblado. "

― Francis Bacon

88 " We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "

― Francis Bacon ,

89 " Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious... "

― Francis Bacon

90 " Prawdę łatwiej wyłowić z błędów niż z zamętu. "

― Francis Bacon , The New Organon

91 " Amo le ferite, gli incidenti, i malesseri, le situazioni in cui la realtà abbandona i suoi fantasmi...
Ma la bruttezza puà essere interessante e affascinante, non è così? "

― Francis Bacon

92 " … 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.

{Foreshadowing Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation (1687)} "

― Francis Bacon , Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries

93 " The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? "

― Francis Bacon

94 " Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. "

― Francis Bacon

95 " Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. "

― Francis Bacon

96 " Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake... "

― Francis Bacon

97 " Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. "

― Francis Bacon

98 " In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. "

― Francis Bacon

99 " Ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge itself is power. "

― Francis Bacon , Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy

100 " It is impossible to love and be wise. "

― Francis Bacon