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.
JOHN LOCKEWe 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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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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I 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.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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To 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.
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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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[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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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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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 familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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