Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKEThere are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
More John Locke Quotes
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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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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