Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. — John Locke Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. — John Locke Copy Share Image
If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which… — John Locke Copy Share Image
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may… — 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
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — 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
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
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
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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
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
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — 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
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
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