Quote by Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlet

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. – Francis Bacon

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into mens heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. – Francis Bacon

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The monster of advertisement…is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat… – Sarah Bernhardt

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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. – James Joyce

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