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John Locke
(1632-1704)

English Philosopher

birthdate: August 29
birthplace:
Wrington, Somerset, England

QUOTES

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

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.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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.

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.

What worries you, masters you.

“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.”

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

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

 


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