The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. (90)
• The Idols of the Cave take their rise in the peculiar constitution, mental or bodily, of each individual; and also in education, habit, and accident . (102)
• Men become attached to certain particular sciences and speculations… (109)
•…distort and colour them in obedience to their former fancies… (= cook cutter mentality) (111)
•…that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to
be held in suspicion…(122)