Book, Aphorism

  1      Pre          |            putting an end to other men's efforts than good by their
  2      Pre          |            if in things mechanical men had set to work with their
  3      Pre          |           from its place, and that men should set to work upon
  4      Pre          |             and required all their men to come with hands, arms,
  5      Pre          |             Yet just so it is that men proceed in matters intellectual —
  6      Pre          |           overlooked, I would have men reminded. First, it falls
  7      Pre          |        point of which I would have men reminded relates to the
  8      Pre          |           which must needs be most men's case), I wish that they
  9      Pre          |        should also be presented to men's minds, how strangely soever
 10      Pre          |             that I should claim of men one favor in return, which
 11        1, X       | speculations, and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the
 12        1, XVI     |      another. All the others which men have hitherto adopted are
 13        1, XXVII   |           for consent, for even if men went mad all after the same
 14        1, XXXVI   |          simply this: we must lead men to the particulars themselves,
 15        1, XXXVI   |            series and order; while men on their side must force
 16        1, XXXVIII |         therein, not only so beset men's minds that truth can hardly
 17        1, XXXVIII |        meet and trouble us, unless men being forewarned of the
 18        1, XXXIX   |       classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction'
 19        1, XLI     |            in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion
 20        1, XLII    |        observed by Heraclitus that men look for sciences in their
 21        1, XLIII   |     intercourse and association of men with each other, which I
 22        1, XLIII   |            commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse
 23        1, XLIII   |            it is by discourse that men associate, and words are
 24        1, XLIII   |   wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend
 25        1, XLIII   |           into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty
 26        1, XLIV    |         which have immigrated into men's minds from the various
 27        1, XLVI    |    judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such
 28        1, L       |         lies hid and unobserved of men. So also all the more subtle
 29        1, LIV     |                                LIV~Men become attached to certain
 30        1, LIV     |            habituated to them. But men of this kind, if they betake
 31        1, LIX     |            of words and names. For men believe that their reason
 32        1, LIX     |      formal discussions of learned men end oftentimes in disputes
 33        1, LXII    |         not that now for many ages men's minds have been busied
 34        1, LXII    |       matters speculative; so that men labor therein to the peril
 35        1, LXIV    |            all but certain; to all men else incredible and vain.
 36        1, LXIV    |         for I foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions
 37        1, LXVI    |     intermediate. Hence it is that men cease not from abstracting
 38        1, LXVII   |             and the result is that men turn aside to pleasant disputations
 39        1, LXX     |           making experiments which men now use is blind and stupid.
 40        1, LXX     |          it generally happens that men make their trials carelessly,
 41        1, LXXI    |          dignified, as composed of men who had fixed abodes, and
 42        1, LXXI    |       Plato) "the talk of idle old men to ignorant youths." But
 43        1, LXXIII  |    discovered, and that afterwards men philosophized about it,
 44        1, LXXIII  |           images of brutes than of men; inasmuch as brutes by their
 45        1, LXXIII  |          many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions
 46        1, LXXV    |          the very authorities whom men now follow. For even they
 47        1, LXXV    |  Acatalepsia as a tenet and doomed men to perpetual darkness. Hence
 48        1, LXXV    |           different in kind — lest men should imagine that by the
 49        1, LXXV    |          of none but nature — lest men should expect from art some
 50        1, LXXV    |           By this sign, therefore, men will easily take warning
 51        1, LXXVII  |          the point of consent also men are deceived, if the matter
 52        1, LXXVII  |      multitude assent and applaud, men ought immediately to examine
 53        1, LXXVIII |        forward should have escaped men's notice till now may cease,
 54        1, LXXVIII |         the memory and learning of men extends, you can hardly
 55        1, LXXIX   |           the wits and learning of men have flourished most, or
 56        1, LXXIX   |          early ages the Seven Wise Men, as they were called (all
 57        1, LXXIX   |          and diverted the minds of men from the philosophy of nature.~
 58        1, LXXIX   |       hindered, it is no wonder if men made but small advance in
 59        1, LXXXI   |         But in general, so far are men from proposing to themselves
 60        1, LXXXI   |             it is not strange that men have erred as to the means.~
 61        1, LXXXII  |                      LXXXII~And as men have misplaced the end and
 62        1, LXXXII  |           what the way is by which men have been accustomed to
 63        1, LXXXII  |              a mere groping, as of men in the dark, that feel all
 64        1, LXXXII  |           on the created mass. Let men therefore cease to wonder
 65        1, LXXXIV  |                      LXXXIV~Again, men have been kept back as by
 66        1, LXXXIV  |     antiquity, by the authority of men accounted great in philosophy,
 67        1, LXXXIV  |          opinion touching it which men entertain is quite a negligent
 68        1, LXXXIV  |           consent have so bound up men's powers that they have
 69        1, LXXXV   |          have brought together for men's use, he will certainly
 70        1, LXXXV   |       endless repetitions, and how men are ever saying and doing
 71        1, LXXXV   |         and possessed the minds of men.~And if again he descend
 72        1, LXXXV   |          discoveries and presented men with useful inventions.
 73        1, LXXXVI  |        Further, this admiration of men for knowledges and arts —
 74        1, LXXXVI  |           it is nothing strange if men do not seek to advance in
 75        1, LXXXVIII|           examined) is to persuade men that nothing difficult,
 76        1, LXXXVIII|        experiments and thoughts of men are engaged on the former
 77        1, LXXXVIII|        been brought to light, when men have been contented and
 78        1, LXXXIX  |        those who first proposed to men's then uninitiated ears
 79        1, LXXXIX  |         marriage, and entertaining men's minds with a pleasing
 80        1, LXXXIX  |            of carnal wisdom; as if men in the recesses and secret
 81        1, LXXXIX  |          which has most power over men's minds, has by the simpleness
 82        1, XC      |           for the abode of learned men and the cultivation of learning,
 83        1, XC      |        fortune. For the studies of men in these places are confined
 84        1, XCI     |      matter than the generality of men can take in, and is apt
 85        1, XCII    |            is found in this — that men despair and think things
 86        1, XCII    |   impossible. For wise and serious men are wont in these matters
 87        1, XCII    |    naturally present themselves to men grave and of great judgment,
 88        1, XCII    |            to force nor to ensnare men's judgments, but to lead
 89        1, XCII    |    inspiring hope will be to bring men to particulars, especially
 90        1, XCII    |          with my plan of preparing men's minds, of which preparation
 91        1, XCII    |          rest tends rather to make men sad (by giving them a worse
 92        1, XCIII   |          is fairly going on before men are aware that it has begun.
 93        1, XCIV    |          so long a course of years men had kept the true road for
 94        1, XCIV    |      itself has been mistaken, and men's labor spent on unfit objects,
 95        1, XCV     |          sciences have been either men of experiment or men of
 96        1, XCV     |        either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment
 97        1, XCV     |   experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the
 98        1, XCVII   |            live the life of mortal men; but to this end were we
 99        1, XCVIII  |         adequate. On the contrary, men of learning, but easy withal
100        1, XCIX    |            the dark, and confounds men rather than instructs them.
101        1, XCIX    |            affairs and fortunes of men; and above them again, last
102        1, XCIX    |    accident or upon occasion, when men were not seeking for them
103        1, XCIX    |           conjecturing what may be men set before them the example
104        1, XCIX    |          down at a great distance, men would doubtless have begun
105        1, XCIX    |            in beauty and softness, men would have begun immediately
106        1, XCIX    |      distinguished with exactness, men would have been carried
107        1, XCIX    |           the world concealed from men, nor was it by philosophy
108        1, XCIX    |            observing these things, men went for so many ages without
109        1, XCIX    |           must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite
110        1, XCIX    |          endless entanglement. For men hitherto have made but short
111        1, XCIX    |       CXIII~Moreover, I think that men may take some hope from
112        1, XCIX    |           at me, that being of all men of my time the most busied
113        1, XCIX    |          been thus indicated) from men abounding in leisure, and
114        1, XCIX    |           labors and industries of men (especially as regards the
115        1, XCIX    |       combined. For then only will men begin to know their strength
116        1, XCIX    |    aphorisms I proposed to prepare men's minds as well for understanding
117        1, XCIX    |        First, then, I must request men not to suppose that after
118        1, XCIX    |            much to the fortunes of men what abstract notions one
119        1, XCIX    |        possibly avert and alienate men's interest.~And first, for
120        1, XCIX    |      things which seem common. Let men bear in mind that hitherto
121        1, XCIX    |         and detain the thoughts of men, but are received in passing
122        1, XCIX    |         utility hereafter. But let men be assured of this, that
123        1, XCIX    |         both support and honor, as men of no family devise for
124        1, XCIX    |    oversight, it is no wonder that men have not obtained what they
125        1, XCIX    |         sciences goes far to level men's wit and leaves but little
126        1, XCIX    |           has something to do with men's thoughts, as well as with
127        1, XCIX    |            drinks wine." Now other men, as well in ancient as in
128        1, XCIX    |        worlds which the fancies of men have created in philosophical
129        1, XCIX    |         thought that by forbidding men to pronounce and to set
130        1, XCIX    |      convenience of professors and men of business, to be, in short,
131        1, XCIX    |           coin, which passes among men by consent. Nay, I frankly
132        1, XCIX    |           it is fitting that I put men in mind of some things.~
133        1, XCIX    |       there is between the life of men in the most civilized province
134        1, XCIX    |    dominion of their country among men. This certainly has more
135        1, XCIX    |          by obeying her.~Again, if men have thought so much of
136        1, XCIX    |          am of the opinion that if men had ready at hand a just
137        1, XCIX    |           quite another thing than men, preoccupied as their minds
138        1, XVII    |            often warn and admonish men against applying what I
139        1, XVII    |       appearance of things, and by men's opinions. For it is most
140        1, XX      |            per descensorium, which men use for delicate flowers
141        1, XXVII   |      recommended and enjoined that men's diligence in investigating
142        1, XXVII   |           now in use. For hitherto men have used great and indeed
143        1, XXVII   |            little service or none. Men's labor therefore should
144        1, XXVIII  |        Whereas now the thoughts of men go no further than to pronounce
145        1, XXIX    |      natural magic or alchemy, and men of that sort, who are a
146        1, XXXV    |           sun, but yet slower than men generally adopt in working
147        1, XXXVI   |        with the former desire. For men fancy themselves very fine
148        1, XXXVI   |        some length to the end that men may gradually learn and
149        1, XL      |             And in this department men have labored hard, it is
150        1, XL      |          of any use to the eyes of men and most animals; inasmuch
151        1, XLI     |            is strange how careless men are in this matter; for
152        1, XLV     |           there are many more than men suspect; as (to take common
153        1, XLVI    |           astonished certain grave men that they preferred believing
154        1, XLVIII  |         much depends upon it) that men should know that violent
155        1, XLVIII  |          this motion has so filled men's thoughts as to have put
156        1, XLVIII  |           wonder and admiration of men have mixed them up together.
157        1, XLVIII  |        made up into ointments; and men who work amid the vapors
158        1, L       |           boat capable of carrying men under water for some distance.
159        1, L       |    delicate pores. To this opinion men have been led by common
160        1, L       |   therefore there is no reason why men should be much afraid of
161        1, L       |        effective to work with. But men are utterly impatient both
162        1, LII     |       guardian) I may hand over to men their fortunes, now their