Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKESo that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
More John Locke Quotes
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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