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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.

John Locke

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Independent Thinking
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
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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Atheism Credit Reason
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Man 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.
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Common Littles Men
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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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Curiosity Silly

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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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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