Quote

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

John Locke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
Writer
Wrington
Somerset
Soul
Magistrate
Magistrates
Belong
Civil
Souls
Atheism
Cannot
Care

More quotes by John Locke

Image
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
John Locke
Image
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Image
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
John Locke
Image
What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
John Locke
Image
Men in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
John Locke
Image
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
John Locke
Image
God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
John Locke
Image
Revolt is the right of the people
John Locke
Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
Image
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
Image
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
Image
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.
John Locke
Image
I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
John Locke
Image
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples for imitation is a globe of precepts.
John Locke
Image
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
John Locke
Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
John Locke
Image
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
John Locke
Image
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke
Image
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
John Locke
Image
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
John Locke