The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call…

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to sup…

There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and c…

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly-and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and …

Law is the continuous manifestation of God's presence - not reason for believing him absent. Great confusion arises from our using the same word law in two tot…

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of rabbits, rabbits.