Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
JOHN LOCKENot time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
More John Locke Quotes
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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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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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Thus 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.
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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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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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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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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