John Locke Short Quotes

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

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Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

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Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.

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Curiosity in children…is but an appetite after knowledge.

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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

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Probability is the appearance of agreement upon fallible proofs.

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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

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Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.

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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

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The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.

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Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

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A blind fortuitous concourse of atoms, not guided by an understanding agent.

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Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader's fancy.

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Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

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

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

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He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

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The highest probability amounts not to certainty, without which there can be no true knowledge.

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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

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