WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 15 May 2026 22:39:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg legends – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bacon, Francis -- “Of Atheism,” Essays, No. 16 (1625) https://wist.info/bacon-francis/11112/ https://wist.info/bacon-francis/11112/#respond Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:18:06 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=11112 I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.


Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Atheism,” Essays, No. 16 (1625)
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Death,” Essays, No. 2 (1625)
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