There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKEThings of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
More John Locke Quotes
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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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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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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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.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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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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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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There 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.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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