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John Locke
English
Philosopher
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Property
#Injustice
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Truth
#Knowledge
#Dream
#Arguments
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
We should have a great 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,
English
Philosopher
#Words
#World
#Ideas
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Character
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.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Men
#Darkness
#Eyes
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.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Love
#Society
#Truth
#Morality
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Nothing
#World
#State
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Men
#Questions
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Rudeness
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Reason
#Men
#Society
#Property
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#World
#Knowledge
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Thought
#Men
#Actions
#Thoughts
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.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#End
#Freedom
#Law
#states
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Trying
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Character
#Desire
#Discipline
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#God
#Children
#Bible
#End
#Men
#Truth
#Blessings
#Salvation
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Understanding
#Ideas
#Mind
#Reflection
#Reverie
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Thinking
#Reading
#Mind
#Knowledge
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Wonder
#Parents
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Cause
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Time
#People
#Day
#Deeds
#Disguise
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Love
#Will
#Truth
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Man
#Experience
#Knowledge
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Reason
#Opinions
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Man
#Truth
#Error
#Possession
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Ocean
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Fashion
#Ostentation
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#First
#Understanding
#Knowledge
#Improvement
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.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Love
#Thought
#Idea
#Present
#Delight
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Man
#Balance
All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Labor
#Wealth
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Men
#Passion
#Temptation
#Interest
#Error
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Life
#Being
#Liberty
#Harm
#Health
#Mankind
#Possessions
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Will
#State
#Mind
#Body
#Sound
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#End
#Government
#Property
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Evil
#Actions
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Time
#People
#Walking
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Men
#Information
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Support
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Right
#Man
#Property
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke,
English
Philosopher
#Reading
#Education
#Reflection
#Company
#Gentleman