Francis Bacon Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.459

• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

  Francis Bacon

  Fear, Mind, Desire

  1625 Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

  Francis Bacon

  Crazy, Animal, Mad

• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Knowledge, Angel

• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

• But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.81

• If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Son, Winning

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