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Logic is the anatomy of thought.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it nor be much concerned when he misses it.
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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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.
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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Justice and truth are the common ties of society
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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