Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 12. Januar 1561 |
Geburtsort | The Strand |
Todesdatum | Donnerstag, 09. April 1626 |
Todesort | Highgate |
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Beschreibung | Francis Bacon, 1. Viscount St. Albans, 1. Baron Verulam (* 22. Januar 1561 in London; † 9. April 1626 in Highgate bei London), war ein englischer Philosoph, Jurist und Staatsmann, der als Wegbereiter des Empirismus gilt. |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
The worst men often give the best advice.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
God's first creature, which was light.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Knowledge is power.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
