The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
JOHN LOCKEFreedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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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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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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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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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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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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If 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.
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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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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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