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• Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

  John Locke

  Men, Perception, Mind

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59

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• As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Walking Away

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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.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

  John Locke

  Power, Creation, Mark

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.40

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• The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

  John Locke

  Should Have, Age, World

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.119

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• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Habit

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• The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

  John Locke

  Art, Learning, Littles

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• Where there is no property there is no injustice.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Justice, Injustice

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  John Locke

  Men, Self, Liberty

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.128

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• Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

  John Locke

  Children, Curiosity, Appetite

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• 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

  Exercise, Government, Tyranny

  John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.141, Broadview Press

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• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Long, World

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.324

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• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Confusing

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• Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

  John Locke

  Math, Proof, Diamond

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• It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

  John Locke

  Differences, Labor Day, May Day

  John Locke (1821). “Two Treatises on Government”, p.221

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• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Support, Fortitude

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Get Well, Health

  1693 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, opening words. See Juvenal 453:20.

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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.

  John Locke

  War, Mean, Fighting

  John Locke (1752). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition”, p.174

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• If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

  John Locke

  Health, Hands, Useless

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.296

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.317

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• The tendency to cruelty
  should be watched in
  children and if they
  incline to any such
  cruelty, they should be
  taught the contrary
  usage. For the custom
  of tormenting and killing
  other animals will, by
  degrees, harden their
  hearts even toward man.
  Children should from
  the beginning, be
  brought up in an
  abhorrence of killing or
  tormenting living
  beings.

  John Locke

  Children, Heart, Animal

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• Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

  John Locke

  Ideas, Movement, Time Management

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Darkness

  John Locke (1824). “Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book”, p.261

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• Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

  John Locke

  Freedom, Play, Names

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.391

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