Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
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“The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.”
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book
Source: Two treatises of government
“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding
“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary
“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
Source: Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition
Source: Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book
Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary
“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.”
Source: Two treatises of government
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
Source: The Works of John Locke
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding