Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKEA 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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We 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.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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