Logo
Quote by Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Poetry
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Philosophy
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Philosophy
category

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Philosophy

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Philosophy

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. – Gaston Bachelard

Category:
Philosophy

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. – Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives

Category:
Philosophy

Random Quotes

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcenden

Category:
Yoga

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide. – Bill Owens

Category:
Hope

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. – Gerrit Smith

Category:
Peace

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness