There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
JOHN LOCKEThere is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
More John Locke Quotes
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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So 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.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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