Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKEI 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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