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John Locke

John Locke

English philosopher

Lived from: 1632 - 1704

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 august 1632 Died: 28 october 1704

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  • The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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  • The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
    Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57
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  • The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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  • The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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  • The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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  • There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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  • Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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  • To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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  • 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.
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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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  • We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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  • Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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