Francis Bacon

“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor. Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Lucid intervals and happy pauses. History of King Henry VII , III”

“Aristotle (…) a mere bond”

“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation. Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works , Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133”

“It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (…) that are the true ends of knowledge (…), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them. Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works , Vol. I, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133”

“Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates.”

“Meditationes Sacræ [ Sacred Meditations ] (1597), "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]”

“Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. For knowledge itself is power .”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power . Essex's Device”

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”