Francis Bacon (filozof) cytaty strona 4

„Rozum ludzki nie odznacza się trzeźwym spojrzeniem,
lecz podlega wpływowi woli i uczyć; tak powstają
nauki budowane wedle upodobań człowieka.
Albowiem człowiek łatwiej wierzy w to, co wolałby,
aby było prawdziwe. Stąd to pochodzi, że odrzuca:
rzeczy trudne, gdyż brak mu cierpliwości w prowadzeniu badań;
rzeczy trzeźwe, ponieważ ograniczają nadzieję;
[…]
poglądy przeciwne pospolitemu mniemaniu ze względu na opinie gminu.
Niezliczone są wreszcie, a niekiedy nieuchwytne sposoby,
którymi uczucia zabarwiają i zarażają rozum.”

Francis Bacon (filozof) książka Novum Organum

Źródło: Novum Organum (1620)

„Ludzkie zrozumienie jest jak krzywe zwierciadło, które, otrzymując promienie nieregularnie, zniekształca i zmienia kolor natury rzeczy przez wmieszanie w niej swojej natury.”

„Mądry człowiek nie czeka na okazje, sam je stwarza.”

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. (ang.)

„Rozumowi więc ludzkiemu nie trzeba dodawać skrzydeł, lecz raczej ołowiu i ciężarów, ażeby hamowały wszelkie wyskoki.”

„Prawdę łatwiej wyłowić z błędów niż z zamętu.”

„Umysłowi ludzkiemu nie skrzydeł potrzeba, lecz ołowiu.”

The New Organon

“Silence is the virtue of a fool.”

Francis Bacon (filozof): Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

Francis Bacon książka The Advancement of Learning

Book VI, xxxi
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
Źródło: The Essays

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Innovations
Essays (1625)

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

“By far the best proof is experience.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Źródło: The Essays

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

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Źródło: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”

“It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Truth
Essays (1625)

“Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.”

Francis Bacon książka The Advancement of Learning

Book II, xxi, 9
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Followers and Friends
Essays (1625)

“It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech … that are the true ends of knowledge … but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.”

No. 206
Apophthegms (1624)

“In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.”

Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603) Works, Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819) p. 133, https://books.google.com/books?id=xgE9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133 Vol. 2

“Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.”

Francis Bacon książka Novum Organum

Aphorism 73
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Custom and Education
Essays (1625)