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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
— John Locke
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
— John Locke
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
— John Locke
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
— John Locke
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
— John Locke
With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
— John Locke
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
— William John Locke
Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.
— William John Locke
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
— John Locke
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
— John Locke
Fabulous. Toleration is the key word. It's a pity few people understand this.
— Cristiane Serruya
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
— John Locke
Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
— William John Locke
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
— John Locke
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
— John Locke
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
— John Locke
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
— John Locke
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
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
— John Locke
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. — William John Locke
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. — William John Locke
As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
— William John Locke
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
— John Locke
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
— William John Locke
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
— John Locke
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
— John Locke
Justice and truth are the common ties of society
— John Locke
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
— John Locke
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
— John Locke
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.
— William John Locke
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
— John Locke
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
— John Locke
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
— John Locke
Revolt is the right of the people
— John Locke
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
— John Locke
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
— John Locke
I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.
— C.J. Roberts
Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.
— John Locke
That which parents should take care of ... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
— John Locke
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
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
— John Locke
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
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
— John Locke
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
— John Locke
Beasts abstract not.
— John Locke
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
Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.
— William John Locke
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
— John Locke
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
— William John Locke
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
— John Locke
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
— John Locke
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
— John Locke
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men's opinions are superficial and confused.
— John Locke
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity Ch.2, 8
— John Locke
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
— John Locke
[M]an 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
All wealth is the product of labor.
— John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
— John Locke
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
— John Locke
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
— John Locke
Women are women and can't help themselves.
— William John Locke
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
— William John Locke
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
— John Locke
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
— John Locke
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success ...
— John Locke
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
— John Locke
There's always a random element to taking lives.
— John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
— John Locke
What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
— William John Locke
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
— John Locke
Try all things, hold fast that which is good.
— John Locke
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
— William John Locke
The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.
— William John Locke
To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
— John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
— John Locke
Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
— William John Locke