If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
JOHN LOCKEIn the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
More John Locke Quotes
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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