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Philosophical Quotes by John Locke
- As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- What worries you, masters you.
- All wealth is the product of labor.
- Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
- There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
- Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
- Where there is no property there is no injustice.
- It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
- Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- The discipline of desire is the background of character.
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
- 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…
- Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
- Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
- Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
- Ll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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