The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
JOHN LOCKEThere is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
More John Locke Quotes
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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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 cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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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