Francis Bacon Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Success, Time

• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Education, Teacher

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Change, Philosophical

• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

• 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

• But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Angel, Men

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8

• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Art, Winning

• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Time, Innovation

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

• O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Birthday, Age

  "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

• It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Way

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

• Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Philosophy, Science

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