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Philosoph, Staatsmann, Lordkanzler, Wegbereiter des Empirismus, "Novum Organum", "Essays" (England, 1561 - 1626).

Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon wäre heute 464 Jahre, 2 Monate, 9 Tage oder 169.541 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.01.1561 in London
Gestorben am 09.04.1626 in Highgate bei London
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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• Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

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• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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• Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave, and not taunting.

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• Silence is the virtue of fools.

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• So let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, whichis further and further to discover truth.

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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others.

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• Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

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• Studies teach not their own use; that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.

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• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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• Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

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• That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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• That great mother of sciences.

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• That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.

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• That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it.

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• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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• The communication of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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• The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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• The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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• The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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