“…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…”

— Francis Bacon , book Novum Organum

Aphorism 46
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

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English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626

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“The soul that is from mundane error free
More deeply feels as happier it grows,
And loves the more, the more it understands.”

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(Che) l’alma sciolta dal mondano errore
Tanto più sente, quanto è più felice;
E tant’ha più d’amor, quanto più intende.
La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 19.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 330.

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Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959) British economist

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p, 125
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