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There cannot any one moral rule be propos'd, whereof a man may not justly demand a reason (John Locke Quotes)
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood (John Locke Quotes)
I doubt not, but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences, as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out (John Locke Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: These are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided (John Locke Quotes)
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered (John Locke Quotes)
He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son (John Locke Quotes)
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have (John Locke Quotes)
Man being... 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 (John Locke Quotes)
The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property (John Locke Quotes)
Action [is] the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant (John Locke Quotes)
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived (John Locke Quotes)
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance (John Locke Quotes)
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss (John Locke Quotes)
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding (John Locke Quotes)
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity (John Locke Quotes)
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them (John Locke Quotes)
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural (John Locke Quotes)
He that, in the ordinary affairs of life, would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly (John Locke Quotes)
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves (John Locke Quotes)
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them (John Locke Quotes)
Had the King of Spain employed the hands of his people, and his Spanish iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure that lay so long hid in the dark entrails of America (John Locke Quotes)
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 (John Locke Quotes)
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament (John Locke Quotes)
Every sect, as far as reason will help them, gladly use it; when it fails them, they cry out it is a matter of faith, and above reason (John Locke Quotes)
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humor should be constantly employed in something of use to them (John Locke Quotes)
It is a wrong use of my understanding to make it the rule and measure of another man's - a use which it is neither fit for nor capable of (John Locke Quotes)
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true (John Locke Quotes)
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice (John Locke Quotes)
He must be little skilled in the world who thinks that men's talking much or little shall hold proportion only to their knowledge (John Locke Quotes)