Bacon Essays Quotes

#1. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty

Scott Westerfeld

#2. Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon
the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination,
that all knowledge was but remembrance; so
Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is
but oblivion.
Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

La'el Collins

#4. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Francis Bacon

#5. (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Richard Armour

#6. The politics of the Essays preach a conservatism natural in one who aspired to rule. Bacon wants a strong central power. Monarchy is the best form of government; and usually the efficiency of a state varies with the concentration of power.

Will Durant

#7. leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried "I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom.

Edmund Fawcett

#8. I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Mary Karr

#9. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

#10. I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

Anna Sui

#11. The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

Matt Nix