Nazareth Quotes
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Revolt is the right of the people.
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Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
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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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Don't tell me what I can't do!
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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.
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Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.
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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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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.