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.
JOHN LOCKESo difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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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 will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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