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• Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

  John Locke

  Errors, Common, Neglect

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• Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Time

  John Locke (1778). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.46

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• Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.

  John Locke

  Men, Should Have, People

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

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  Long, Important, Duration

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• This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

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  Reading, Thinking, Giving

  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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• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

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  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

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  Use, Leisure, Recreation

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.236

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• For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

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  Believe, Men, Fleeting

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.505

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• He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

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  Judging, Judgement, Prison

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.179

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• 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

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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• There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Men, People, Liberty

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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  Knowledge, Character, Science

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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• Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

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  Law, Matter, Action

  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”, p.191

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• There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

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  Men, Demand, May

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.23

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• In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

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  Law, Common, Reason

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.279, CUP Archive

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Taken

  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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• Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

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  Ideas, Mind, Use

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.146, CUP Archive

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• A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

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  War, Men, Criminals

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.13, Prometheus Books

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• The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

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  Men, Atheism, Church

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• So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

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  Writing, Imperfection, Difficult

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.63, CUP Archive

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• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

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  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

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• The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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  Philosophical, Evil, Perspective

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• To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

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  Men, Thinking, Order

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.189

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• Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

  John Locke

  Children, Independent, Thinking

  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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• I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

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  Religion, Use, Matter

  John Locke (1854). “Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions”, p.447

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