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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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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.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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