Francis Bacon Quotes

Being is the great explainer.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Reality is the completion of experience.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.