Francis Bacon Life Quotations

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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.

But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man

The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.