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 not for things themselves.
JOHN LOCKEThus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
More John Locke Quotes
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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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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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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