John Locke Quotes
-
He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
-
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
-
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.
-
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.
-
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.
-
Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ's kingdom; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.
-
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
-
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
-
As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.
-
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.
-
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
-
Revolt is the right of the people.
-
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
-
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
-
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
-
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
-
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.
-
For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.
-
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
-
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
-
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.
-
'...the church of England, when she baptizes any one, makes him not a Christian ... the church of England is mistaken, and makes none but socinians Christians'
-
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
-
Don't tell me what I can't do!