Francis Bacon Quotes

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

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

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

That which is cannot be true.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Science is nothing but perception.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Truth is the summit of being.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Is perception equivalent to existence?