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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

John Locke

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
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 LOCKE

Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
JOHN LOCKE

Order Respect Son
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
JOHN LOCKE

Canceled Force Rights Ties War
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Inspirational Philosophical Taken
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKE

Awkward Easy Imitation
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Given Mean Provision
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
JOHN LOCKE

Liberty Live Men Rules
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Errors Neglect
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKE

Freedom Names Play
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt Running Water
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE

Eye Grateful Light
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Reflection Simple
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
JOHN LOCKE

Fashion Philosophical Riches
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
JOHN LOCKE

Beast Creature Men Rational
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
JOHN LOCKE

Blessing Children Men
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKE

Long Philosophical World
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKE

Oppression People
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
JOHN LOCKE

Children Employed Hate Use
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Giving Thinking
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Independent Thinking
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKE

Fortitude Philosophical Support
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKE

Mind Perfection Practice

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