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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything (John Locke Quotes)
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke’s argument (John Locke Quotes)
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it (John Locke Quotes)
Try all things, hold fast that which is good (John Locke Quotes)
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others (John Locke Quotes)
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example (John Locke Quotes)
Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself (John Locke Quotes)
In the beginning, all the world was America (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. (John Locke Quotes)
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man’s own mind (John Locke Quotes)
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience (John Locke Quotes)
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 (John Locke Quotes)
Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first (John Locke Quotes)
[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 Quotes)
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. (John Locke Quotes)
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. (John Locke Quotes)
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue. (John Locke Quotes)
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection. (John Locke Quotes)
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. (John Locke Quotes)
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions. (John Locke Quotes)
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. (John Locke Quotes)
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. (John Locke Quotes)
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds. (John Locke Quotes)
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. (John Locke Quotes)
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . . (John Locke Quotes)
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. (John Locke Quotes)
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. (John Locke Quotes)
The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and inquiring about three portraits on the wallThey are my trinity of the three greatest men the world has ever produced, Jefferson replied: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and John Locke. Hamilton supposedly replied, The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Casar. (John Locke Quotes)
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world (John Locke Quotes)
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of. (John Locke Quotes)