Tag: John Locke
-
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
-
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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
-
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke
-
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
-
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
-
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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
-
We must be headlights and not taillights.
John Locke
-
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