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• 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

  Truth, Father, Light

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 4

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• Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Example

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.69

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• Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

  John Locke

  Struggle, Way, Strengthening

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• I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

  John Locke

  Teach

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Letters to the Right Rev. Edward lord bishop of Worcester, concerning Mr. Locke's Essay of human understanding. Mr. Locke's reply. Answer to Remarks upon an Essay concerning human understanding. Mr. Locke's reply”, p.459

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• Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Yield, May

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• If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

  John Locke

  Punishment, Mind, Prison

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Reading, Men, Knowing

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• Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

  John Locke

  Memories, Sight, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.86

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• Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

  John Locke

  Gold, Mines

  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.114

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• Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

  John Locke

  Atheist, Promise, Atheism

  John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.426, Hackett Publishing

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• The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

  John Locke

  Government, Hands, Law

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.312

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• 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

  Mistake, Errors, Giving

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

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• God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

  John Locke

  Space, Body, Spirit

  John Locke (1706). “Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke ...”, p.160

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• The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

  John Locke

  Soul, Atheism, Care

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.246, CUP Archive

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• If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Desire

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.385

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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• There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

  John Locke

  Dark, Player, Light

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• 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

  Endless Time, People, Trying

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• Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

  John Locke

  Concern, All Things, Knows

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.34

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• The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

  John Locke

  Shadow, Positive Things

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.74

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• A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

  John Locke

  Respect, Son, Order

  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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• All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

  John Locke

  War, Passion, Men

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 20, sec. 17 (1690)

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• 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

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• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

  John Locke

  Communication, Rude, Currents

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends”, p.139

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