The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so
Francis BaconI paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis BaconKnowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis Bacon