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.
JOHN LOCKEKnowledge 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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