Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKEIt 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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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[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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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