Author: Francis Bacon

Cited by

• Edward O. Wilson (1)
  • IN: Consilience: The unity of Knowledge (1999) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover.
    FROM: The Advancement of Learning, (1605), Book, UK
• Daniel J. Boorstin (1)
  • IN: The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to know his World and Himself (1983) Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificient buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of these glories, but only to the glory of the inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out."; as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's play-fellows in that game."
    FROM: The Advancement of Learning, (1605), Book, UK
• Paul Durcan (1)
  • IN: A Snail in my Prime (1993) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events as the snail leaves its slime.
    FROM: NULL, (1955), NULL, Ireland
• Marcus Sedgwick (1)
  • IN: She is Not Invisible (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
    FROM: Of Fortune, (1612), NULL, UK
• Josh Bazell (2)
  • IN: Wild Thing (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The human understanding is not composed of dry light, but is subject to influence from the will and the emotions, a fact that creates fanciful knowledge; man prefers to believe what he wants to be true.
    FROM: Aphorisms Concerning The Interpretation of Nature, and the Kingdom of Man, Dryden translation, (None), Book, UK
• Mark Billingham (1)
  • IN: Death Message (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it.
    FROM: "II. Of Death", Essays, Civil and Moral, (1612), Essay, UK
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: The Aleph (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, thal all novelty is but oblivion.
    FROM: Essays, LVIII, (1597), Essay, UK
• Laurie King (1)
  • IN: A Grave Talent (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other
    FROM: Of Death, (1612), Essay, UK
• Reginald Hill (1)
  • IN: An Advancement of Learning (1971) Fiction, Crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    FROM: The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8., (1605), Book, UK
• William Vollmann (1)
  • IN: The Royal Family (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It would be madness and inconsistency to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
    FROM: Novum Organum (1620) Book I, paragraph VI, (1620), Book, UK
• Matthew Pearl (1)
  • IN: The Last Bookaneer (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
    FROM: The Essays, (1597), Book, UK
• Brad Listi (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
    FROM: Of Superstition, (1625), Essay, UK
• Jon Land (1)
  • IN: Strong Darkness (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kerry Greenwood (1)
  • IN: Death by Water (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
    FROM: On Revenge, (1625), Essay, UK
• Mark Doten (1)
  • IN: The Infernal (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world; rather may he graciously grant to us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.
    FROM: Instauratio Magna, trans. by James Spedding et al, (1858), Book, UK
• Brian Freemantle (1)
  • IN: Dead Men Living (2000) Fiction, Thriller, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Knowledge Itself is Power.
    FROM: "Of Heresies,” Meditationes Sacrae, Francis Bacon, (1597), NULL, UK
• Shaun Hutson (1)
  • IN: Captives (2010) Horror fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is a kind of wild justice…
    FROM: On Revenge, (1625), Essay, UK
• Edith Wharton (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where are the portraits of those who have perished in spite of their vows?
    FROM: Novum Organum, (1620), Book, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.
    FROM: Ibid. "History of Life and Death", (1623), Book, UK
• Greg Iles (1)
  • IN: 24 Hours (2000) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: He that hath a wife and children Hath given hostages to fortune.
    FROM: Essay 8, Of Marriage and Single Life, (1612), Essay, UK