So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
JOHN LOCKEThough 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?
More John Locke Quotes
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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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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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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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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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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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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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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