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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 463 Jahre, 2 Monate, 28 Tage oder 169.195 Tage alt.

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

• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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• Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

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• I had rather believed all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

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• I have rather studied books than men.

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• I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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• I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion. 'Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.'

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• I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.

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• I would live to study, and not study to live.

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• If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.

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• If a man look sharply, and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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• If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

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• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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• If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not.

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• In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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• In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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• In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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