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John Locke
Quotes by John Locke
Quotes by John Locke
“What worries you, masters you.”
John Locke
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
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“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
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“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
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“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”
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“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
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“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.”
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“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
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“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
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“All wealth is the product of labor.”
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“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
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“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
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“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
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“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.”
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“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.”
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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.”
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“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
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“Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.”
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“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
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“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
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“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.”
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“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
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“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
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“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
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“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
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“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
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“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
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