Feigns Quotes (1)
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
Translation of Novum Organum, XLVII. In Francis Bacon, James Spedding, The Works of Francis Bacon (1864), Vol. 8, 80.
See also: | Human (38) | Imagination (54) | Mind (125) | Sudden (2) | Suppose (3) | Understanding (99)
