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
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
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of… — 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
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
[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
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
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as… — 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
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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we… — 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
For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are… — 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
If, then, there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of Being it must be. And to that it is… — 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
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from… — 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
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
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — 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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