Zitate von Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon:
Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret! - Verleumde nur frech! Irgendwas bleibt immer hängen.
Informationen über Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
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, 7 Tage oder 169.174 Tage alt.
Geboren am 22.01.1561 in London
Gestorben am 09.04.1626 in Highgate bei London
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 434 Zitate von Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
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In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons.
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In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much fortune, but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his hands.
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It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few words, than in that speech: "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god."
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It has been well said that 'the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self.'
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It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear: and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.
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It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origins, though recent, are obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet [Mariner's Needle]. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.
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It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, 'The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.'
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.