The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that which he prefers.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 30), Novum Organum

Stanley Aronowitz Quotes

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for...

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for...

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for...

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for...