"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the body; it sees all things else, but cannot see itself."

"The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of n…"

"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

"For as the eye of the mind, through the too great subtilty of the object, may be dulled and not able to perceive it, so through the too great subtilty of the medium it may be deceived and not able to …"