Quote

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

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
Must
Make
Good
Recreation
Life
Leisure
Allow
Large
Use
Part

More quotes by John Locke

Image
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
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
If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
Image
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
John Locke
Image
The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
John Locke
Image
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
John Locke
Image
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Image
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. . . .
John Locke
Image
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
Image
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke
Image
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
John Locke
Image
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
John Locke
Image
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke
Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
John Locke
Image
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
John Locke
Image
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
John Locke
Image
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
John Locke
Image
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
John Locke