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John Locke
John Locke
English Philosopher
Born: Aug 29, 1632
Died: Oct 28, 1704
Knowledge Man Men Own Truth World
Related authors: Alan Watts Bernard Williams Francis Bacon George Henry Lewes Herbert Spencer Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Thomas Hobbes
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke
Life Health Liberty Ought Possessions Independent No-One Equal Another His Being Mankind Harm
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
Freedom Law States Abolish Restrain No Law End Where Capable Created Beings Preserve
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. John Locke
Truth God Bible Matter Pure Men Bestowed Blessings Without Greatest Mixture End Author Salvation Any Children
The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke
Character Discipline Background Desire
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke
Education Knowledge World Thorough Only Fence Against
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
Love Truth Alone Society Our Neighbor Ourselves Morality Cases Determine Human Social To Love Might Human Society
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
Best Thoughts Thought Men Always Actions
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
Knowledge First Understanding Own Increase Others Secondly Our Deliver Enable Improvement Ends Us Two
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Education Good Reflection Gentleman Reading Must Finish Him Begins Good Company Company
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Character Our Those Moral Moral Character Color Take Like Around Hue Us Who
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
Finance Cause Stumble Shoes Too Our Trip Small Like Pinch Gall Us Large Incomes
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke
Knowledge Man Experience Beyond Go His Here
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. John Locke
Property Man Own Every Nobody Himself His Person Right Every Man
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke
Parents Bitter Poisoned Wonder Themselves Why Streams Fountain
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke
Property Men Society Enter Reason Why Preservation
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
Great Words World Signs Our Only Taken Ideas Were Fewer Themselves Should Disputes Things
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke
Guard Other Virtues Support Fortitude
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
Other New Because Without Always Opinions Opposed Suspected Any Common Reason
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
Knowledge Mind Reading Thinking Ours Only Read Makes Materials
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
Love Truth Truth Is Will Mark Assurance Entertaining Proposition Greater Built Than Any Warrant
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. John Locke
Passion Men Liable Temptation Points Most Error Interest Many
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke
Men More Learned Frequently Questions Than Child Unexpected
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
Truth Man Possession One Thing He Put Him Another Error Show Thing
Where there is no property there is no injustice. John Locke
Property Injustice Where
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke
Happy World Better Sound Mind Mind Will Wish Else State More He Sound Short Anything Wants Anything Else Either Little Them Body Full Description Two
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. John Locke
Change World Long Nothing State Flux Constant Remains Same Things
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