“La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado.”
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“MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.”
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
“If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to time and consulting the text when your memory fails.”
― The New Organon
― The New Organon
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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