The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKEThis is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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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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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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A 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.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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.
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