Quote by Francis Bacon
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth mans mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth mens minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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

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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

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Philosophy is a mental concept of the universe. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

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