from "Novum Organum", 1620
"But the Idols of the Market-place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive."
--Francis Bacon,
(1561-1626)
and "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
--Sigmund Freud