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“All colours will agree in the dark.”
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“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.
And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
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And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
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“No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.”
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“It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. And yet that commonly is the case of kings...”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.”
― The New Organon
― The New Organon
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