The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKEThe Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKEThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKEIf 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.
JOHN LOCKEWhen ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKEI doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
JOHN LOCKETruth 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.
JOHN LOCKETo love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKEBeware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKEIs it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKEI 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.
JOHN LOCKEWords, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKEError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKEHe that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKEThere are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
JOHN LOCKEThings of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKECuriosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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