Gage Cantrell

“It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. And yet that commonly is the case of kings...”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“Once the human mind has favoured certain views, it pulls everything else into agreement with and support for them. Should they be outweighed by more powerful countervailing considerations, it either fails to notice these, or scorns them, or makes fine distinctions in order to neutralize and so reject them.”
― Francis Bacon, The New Organon

“No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.”
― Francis Bacon

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
― Francis Bacon