Philosophy Quote by Francis Bacon — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

“God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”

“I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.”

“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

“An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.”

“The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.”

“Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.”

“When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.”