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owlfish at 09:39pm on 28/09/2005
owlfish at 09:39pm on 28/09/2005From the Novum Organum. First Book of Aphorisms. No. 49. Graham Rees, trans.
"The human intellect is not a dry light but is contaminated by the will and affections; and this begets As-you-like-it Sciences*. For man would rather believe what he wishes to be true."
* "Ad quod vult Scientias"
"The human intellect is not a dry light but is contaminated by the will and affections; and this begets As-you-like-it Sciences*. For man would rather believe what he wishes to be true."
* "Ad quod vult Scientias"
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