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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.

  John Locke

  Believe, Men, Fleeting

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

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

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Habit

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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.

  John Locke

  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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• 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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• Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Common

  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.33

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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.

  John Locke

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

  John Locke

  Men, Atheism, Church

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• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Should Have

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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

  John Locke

  Men, Demand, May

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

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• How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

  John Locke

  Games, Play, Toys

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.166

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• An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

  John Locke

  Integrity, Men, Balance

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• Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Evil, Perspective

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• Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

  John Locke

  Needs, Reason, Habit

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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.

  John Locke

  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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• The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

  John Locke

  Father, Distance, Son

  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 have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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  Trying, Half, Moments

  "The Guardian", August 11, 1988.

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• The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

  John Locke

  Hands, Law, People

  John Locke (1759). “THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE, Esq;: In THREE VOLUMES. To which is Added, The LIFE of the AUTHOR; AND A COLLECTION of Several of His PIECES Published by Mr. DESMAIZEAUX.”, p.208

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• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  John Locke

  Children, Ignorance, Curiosity

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

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  Men, Beast, Should

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.532

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• As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

  John Locke

  Law, Atheism, Church

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.65, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

  John Locke

  Book, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1824). “Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) 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. New method for a common-place book”, p.328

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• He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

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  Pain, Missing, Mind

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.532

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