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.
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 LOCKEMan is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKEI thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
JOHN LOCKEFirmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
JOHN LOCKEFortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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?
JOHN LOCKEA king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
JOHN LOCKEWho are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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 LOCKENo man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKEHe that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
JOHN LOCKEThe Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKEThere cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKEDon’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKEWe are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
JOHN LOCKEAnd thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
JOHN LOCKE