Zitate von Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon

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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

• The folly of one man is the fortune of another; for no man prospers so suddenly as by others' errors.

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• The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).

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• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man: insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures.

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• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

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• The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

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• The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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• The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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• The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

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• The remedy is worse than the disease.

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• The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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• The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.

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• The sum of behavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.

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• The world's a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.

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• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

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• There are three things which make a nation great and prosperous - a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities.

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• There be that can pack the cards and yet cannot play well; so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men.

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• There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

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