Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
JOHN LOCKEI thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
More John Locke Quotes
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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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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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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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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