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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Philosophical, Riches

  John Locke (1823). “The Works of John Locke”, p.59

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

  John Locke

  Effort, Desire, Labor

  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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• 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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• The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

  John Locke

  People, Body, May

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

  John Locke

  Men, Doe, He Man

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.537

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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.

  John Locke

  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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• Justice and truth are the common ties of society

  John Locke

  Ties, Justice, Society

  John Locke (1828). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works”, p.35

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

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Walking Away

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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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• 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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• ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 9, sec. 124 (1690)

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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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