Book, Aphorism

  1      Pre         |     entirely to the force of their understanding, applied no rule, but made
  2      Pre         |            search of helps for the understanding, and had no confidence in
  3      Pre         |        that the entire work of the understanding be commenced afresh, and
  4      Pre         |            the naked forces of the understanding, very small would the matters
  5      Pre         |       strengthen the sinews of the understanding, and yet with all this study
  6      Pre         |          to open a new way for the understanding, a way by them untried and
  7      Pre         |            It does not flatter the understanding by conformity with preconceived
  8        1, II     |     Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect
  9        1, II     |         are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as
 10        1, II     |         either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.~
 11        1, X      |         subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious
 12        1, XX     |                             XX~The understanding left to itself takes the
 13        1, XXI    |                            XXI~The understanding left to itself, in a sober,
 14        1, XXI    |         little progress, since the understanding, unless directed and assisted,
 15        1, XXVIII |         they straightway touch the understanding and fill the imagination;
 16        1, XXVIII |         cannot suddenly strike the understanding; and therefore they must
 17        1, XXXVII |        authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise
 18        1, XXXVIII|            possession of the human understanding, and have taken deep root
 19        1, XLI    |            universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror,
 20        1, XLIII  |          wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do the definitions
 21        1, XLIII  |     plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion,
 22        1, XLIV   |      largely and exactly, that the understanding may be duly cautioned.~
 23        1, XLV    |                      XLV~The human understanding is of its own nature prone
 24        1, XLVI   |                     XLVI~The human understanding when it has once adopted
 25        1, XLVII  |                    XLVII~The human understanding is moved by those things
 26        1, XLVIII |                   XLVIII~The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop
 27        1, XLVIII |             nevertheless the human understanding being unable to rest still
 28        1, XLIX   |                     XLIX~The human understanding is no dry light, but receives
 29        1, XLIX   |    affections color and infect the understanding.~
 30        1, L      |            aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness,
 31        1, LI     |                       LI~The human understanding is of its own nature prone
 32        1, LIII   |    disturbing the clearness of the understanding.~
 33        1, LVII   |          break up and distract the understanding, while contemplations of
 34        1, LVII   |         overpower and dissolve the understanding, a distinction well seen
 35        1, LVII   |        taken by turns, so that the understanding may be rendered at once
 36        1, LVIII  |         such questions to keep the understanding even and clear.~
 37        1, LIX    |          which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of
 38        1, LIX    |            that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has
 39        1, LIX    |         most obvious to the vulgar understanding. And whenever an understanding
 40        1, LIX    |     understanding. And whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or
 41        1, LX     |            imposed by words on the understanding are of two kinds. They are
 42        1, LXI    |         nor do they steal into the understanding secretly, but are plainly
 43        1, LXI    |           difficult, and the human understanding may the more willingly submit
 44        1, LXIV   |         the premature hurry of the understanding to leap or fly to universals
 45        1, LXV    |         their parts. For the human understanding is obnoxious to the influence
 46        1, LXV    |            philosophy ensnares the understanding; but this kind, being fanciful
 47        1, LXV    |          in man an ambition of the understanding, no less than of the will,
 48        1, LXV    |            is a very plague of the understanding for vanity to become the
 49        1, LXVI   |          philosophy. Now the human understanding is infected by the sight
 50        1, LXVII  |          must also be given to the understanding against the intemperance
 51        1, LXVII  |             the latter weakens the understanding. For the philosophy of Aristotle,
 52        1, LXVII  |       urging, the human senses and understanding, weak as they are, are not
 53        1, LXVIII |      solemn determination, and the understanding thoroughly freed and cleansed;
 54        1, LXX    |      extirpation of idols from the understanding more easy and gentle.~
 55        1, LXXVI  |        road from the senses to the understanding was not skillfully laid
 56        1, LXXVII |          imagination, or binds the understanding with the bands of common
 57        1, LXXXI  |       satisfaction to the mind and understanding in rendering causes for
 58        1, LXXXII |            of a road for the human understanding direct from the sense, by
 59        1, XCIV   |            power, but in the human understanding, and the use and application
 60        1, XCV    |          it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore
 61        1, XCVII  |          notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even,
 62        1, XCVIII |           certainty, to inform the understanding, or in any way adequate.
 63        1, XCVIII |            collected to supply the understanding with information for the
 64        1, XCIX   |         for the information of the understanding. For the mechanic, not troubling
 65        1, XCIX   |       required for the work of the understanding, or of philosophy, shall
 66        1, XCIX   |           ready at hand, still the understanding is by no means competent
 67        1, XCIX   |          distract and confound the understanding, little is to be hoped for
 68        1, XCIX   |       descending to works.~CIV~The understanding must not, however, be allowed
 69        1, XCIX   |         the practice hitherto, the understanding being not only carried that
 70        1, XCIX   |            really limitations.~The understanding must not therefore be supplied
 71        1, XCIX   |            infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters
 72        1, XCIX   |            men's minds as well for understanding as for receiving what is
 73        1, XCIX   |            foundation in the human understanding for a holy temple after
 74        1, XCIX   |     apprehension, or indeed to any understanding accustomed to the present
 75        1, XCIX   |     flowing spontaneously from the understanding, or drawn up by logic, as
 76        1, XCIX   |           am building in the human understanding a true model of the world,
 77        1, XCIX   |      understand, but provision for understanding truly. For I do not take
 78        1, XCIX   |         helps; I do not slight the understanding, but govern it. And better
 79        1, X      |        confounds and distracts the understanding, unless it be ranged and
 80        1, X      |          method and order that the understanding may be able to deal with
 81        1, X      |            this is done, still the understanding, if left to itself and its
 82        1, XI     |            presentation before the understanding of all known instances which
 83        1, XII    |         make a presentation to the understanding of instances in which the
 84        1, XIII   |         make a presentation to the understanding of instances in which the
 85        1, XV     |   Presentation of Instances to the Understanding. Which presentation having
 86        1, XV     |      faculties and strength of the understanding which is at work. To God,
 87        1, XIX    |        that of rendering the human understanding a match for things and nature),
 88        1, XIX    |            aids for the use of the understanding; which I shall now subjoin.
 89        1, XX     |        think it expedient that the understanding should have permission,
 90        1, XX     |         call the Indulgence of the Understanding, or the Commencement of
 91        1, XX     |           way of indulgence to the understanding.~Now from this our First
 92        1, XXI    |          to the other helps of the understanding in the Interpretation of
 93        1, XXIII  |      efficient, and so possess the understanding, or at least touch it, with
 94        1, XXIII  |       readily suggest itself to an understanding led astray by efficient
 95        1, XXIV   |         and check the hurry of the understanding. For whatever displays the
 96        1, XXIV   |            it on the notice of the understanding should be held suspect,
 97        1, XXVI   |         the infirmity of the human understanding that particular forms, which
 98        1, XXVI   |            employed lest the human understanding, after having discovered
 99        1, XXVII  |          Again, upon this hint the understanding easily rises to a higher
100        1, XXVIII | investigation and help to cure the understanding depraved by custom and the
101        1, XXIX   |       impressions suggested to the understanding by ordinary phenomena, and
102        1, XXX    |      universe, and carrying on the understanding from that which is to that
103        1, XXXI   |  extraordinary works of nature the understanding is excited and raised to
104        1, XXXI   |      caution lest they depress the understanding and fasten it as it were
105        1, XXXI   |           and bind and bewitch the understanding with regard to them, that
106        1, XXXII  |         the matters that enter the understanding, and to correct the ill
107        1, XXXII  |          the ill complexion of the understanding itself, which cannot but
108        1, XXXII  |      setting right and purging the understanding. For whatever withdraws
109        1, XXXII  |         For whatever withdraws the understanding from the things to which
110        1, XXXV   |          raising and elevating the understanding from specific differences
111        1, XXXV   |          beginning, therefore, the understanding, rejecting the notion of
112        1, XXXVI  |    investigation of any nature the understanding is so balanced as to be
113        1, XXXVII |            serve as ballast to the understanding.~For example, let the natures
114        1, XXXVIII|          to the perceptions of the understanding, which are true notions
115        1, XLIII  |            because they awaken the understanding; dissecting, because they
116        1, XLIII  |         are those which remind the understanding of the wonderful and exquisite
117        1, LII    |          to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the
118        1, LII    |           either the senses or the understanding: the senses, as the five
119        1, LII    |         instances of the lamp; the understanding, either by hastening the
120        1, LII    |    subjunctive; or by exalting the understanding and leading it to genera
121        1, LII    |     conformable; or by setting the understanding right when led astray by
122        1, LII    |      either help and set right the understanding and senses, or furnish practice
123        1, LII    |          their fortunes, now their understanding is emancipated and come