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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

• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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• There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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• There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.

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• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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• There is one radical distinction between different minds . . . that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others mark their resemblances.

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• They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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

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• They perfect nature and are perfected by experience.

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• They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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• Time is the greatest of innovators.

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• Time is the measure of business as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch.

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• To choose time is to save time.

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; inthe elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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• Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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