
“Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.”
Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
Period I To the Revival of Letters in Erope
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (1772)
Context: Great as Bacon was, he was far from being free from the mistakes and prejudices of those who went before him. Even some of the most wild and absurd opinions of the antients have the sanction of his approbation and authority. He does not hesitate to assent to an opinion... that visual rays proceed from the eye; giving this reason for it, that every thing in nature is qualified to discharge its proper functions by its own powers, in the same manner as the sun, and other celestial bodies. He acknowledges, however, that the presence of light, as well as several other circumstances, is necessary to vision.
“Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.”
Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 124
Context: If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.
Talent of Freedom. What Is Internal Freedom? http://parentingforeveryone.com/freedom/
Chelovek Svobodny (Free Man) (1994)
“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/480273220659339264 (21 June 2014)
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Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
21 September 1854 (p. 256)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. I