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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
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.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Children should not be suffer'd to lose the consideration of human nature in the shufflings of outward conditions.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
The custom of tormenting and killing of beasts will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)