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

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophical
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Imagination
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Nature
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. – Marian Anderson

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Nature

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Nature

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. – Doug Coupland

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Nature

Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. – Andrew Bernstein

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Nature

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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. – Ann Beattie

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Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. – Hans J. Morgenthau

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A rich mans joke is always funny. – Thomas Edward Brown

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