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Quotation from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
“The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will”
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XLIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902
Bacon describes how desire and feeling colour belief, so that a person believes more readily what they prefer (a footnote marker in the source is omitted).
Citation: "The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will" — Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XLIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902. (id novum-organum-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
