It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — 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
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
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
To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and… — 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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it,… — 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
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. — 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
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. — John Locke Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — 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
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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