Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKEIn the beginning, all the world was America.
More John Locke Quotes
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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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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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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