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.
JOHN LOCKEIt is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
More John Locke Quotes
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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