Tag: John Locke
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To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke
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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
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke
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All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke