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.
JOHN LOCKEWho 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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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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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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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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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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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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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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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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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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