John Locke Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Use

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.42, CUP Archive

• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Reflection

  "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".

• If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

  John Locke

  Dream, Men, Waking

  John Locke, Anthony Douglas Woozley (1964). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.563, Hayes Barton Press

• Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

  John Locke

  Dream, Men, Littles

  John Locke (1825). “The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.140

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