John Locke Quotes
If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
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We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to...
John Locke
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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
John Locke
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In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.
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Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.
John Locke
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