 | Francis Bacon - 1858
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. XLII. The Idols of the Cave are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. XLII. The Idols of the Cave are... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 563 pages
...not to the true nature of the universe ; and the human understanding is like a false mirror, which distorts and discolors the nature of things, by mingling its own nature with it."] " In perception," says Kant, " every thing is known according to the constitution of our faculty of... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 563 pages
...not to the true nature of the universe ; and the human understanding is like a false mirror, which distorts and discolors the nature of things, by mingling its own nature with it."] " In perception," says Kant, " every thing is known according to the constitution of our faculty of... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 563 pages
...not to the true nature of the universe ; and the human understanding is like a false mirror, which distorts and discolors the nature of things, by mingling its own nature with it."] " In perception," says Kant, "every thing is known according to the constitution of our faculty of... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 461 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which,...nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ... For every one (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own,... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - 1895 - 262 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which,...nature of things by mingling its own nature with it." "The Idols of the Den are the idols of the individual man. For every one (besides the errors common... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1895 - 228 pages
...Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. . . . The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it." . . . " The Idols of the Cave... | |
 | 1895
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, disturbs and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. " The Idols of the... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 174 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. XLII. " The Idols of the Cave are... | |
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On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly,... 
