Quotes from Francis Bacon

?esto sam razmišljao o smrti i zaklju?io da je ponajmanje od svih zala.

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

If you really love life you're walking in the shadow of death all the time...Death is the shadow of life, and the more one is obsessed with life the more one is obsesses with death. I'm greedy for life and I'm greedy as an artist. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.

Ira Hominis Non Implet Iustitiam Dei

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso más alto es el peor amueblado.

For bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

it often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

There are Idols which we call Idols of the Market. For Men associate by Discourse, and a false and improper Imposition of Words strangely possesses the Understanding, for Words absolutely force the Understanding, and put all Things into Confusion.

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

Amo le ferite, gli incidenti, i malesseri, le situazioni in cui la realtà abbandona i suoi fantasmi... Ma la bruttezza puà essere interessante e affascinante, non è così?

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.

La lectura hace al hombre completo; la conversación lo hace ágil, el escribir lo hace preciso.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory of the past events as the snail leaves its slime. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

He that is only real had need have exceeding great parts of virtue, as the stone had need be rich that is set without foil.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

To choose time is to save time.

Ä°nsan?n en büyük dalkavuÄŸu kendisidir, bu dalkavukluktan kurtulman?n en iyi yolu da bir dostun içtenliÄŸidir.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence and things mean and splendid exist alike.