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Philosophical literature12 quotes
It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error; and another, to put him in possession of truth. — John Locke · 1690Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience. — John Locke · 1690Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses. — John Locke · 1690Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as straight; and men may be as positive and peremptory in error as in truth. — John Locke · 1690Virtue is harder to be got, than a Knowledge of the World; and, if lost in a young Man, is seldom recover'd. — John Locke · 1693He that will have his Son have a Respect for him and his Orders, must himself have a great Reverence for his Son. — John Locke · 1693All 12 quotes →Political literature10 quotes
Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins. — John Locke · 1690The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom. — John Locke · 1690Virtue is harder to be got, than a Knowledge of the World; and, if lost in a young Man, is seldom recover'd. — John Locke · 1693He that will have his Son have a Respect for him and his Orders, must himself have a great Reverence for his Son. — John Locke · 1693The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community. — John Locke · 1690Man being...by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent. — John Locke · 1690All 10 quotes →