Roger Bacon Quotes

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

When we think the universe moves. When we think we actually cause things to happen.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?