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John Locke Quotes

Biography: John Locke is known for his contributions to political philosophy and ... more Biography: John Locke is known for his contributions to political philosophy and the development of modern liberalism. An English philosopher of the 17th century, he advocated for the principles of natural rights, government by consent, and the separation of church and state, profoundly influencing the Enlightenment and the founding of modern democratic societies. less

"The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made."

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"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us."

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

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

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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

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"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

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"Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions"

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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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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom"

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"Government has no other end but the preservation of property"

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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours"

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"What worries you masters you"

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

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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it"

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