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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.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

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

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

  John Locke

  Trying, Half, Moments

  "The Guardian", August 11, 1988.

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

  John Locke

  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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• The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Liberty, Foundation

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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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• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

  John Locke

  Ocean, Serendipity, Depth

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  John Locke

  Pain, Missing, Mind

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

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

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Habit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

  John Locke

  Revenge, Anger, Mind

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.148

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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