Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at… — John Locke Copy Share Image
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on… — John Locke Copy Share Image
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for… — John Locke Copy Share Image
..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses...… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty.… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out… — John Locke Copy Share
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share
Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little… — John Locke Copy Share
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge — John Locke Copy Share
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