“The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man.”

— Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620), Aphorism 42

About Francis Bacon

1561 – 1626

English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”