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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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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.
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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.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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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.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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