But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression John Locke More Quotes by John Locke More Quotes From John Locke Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. John Locke reflecting-upon delight ideas Try all things, hold fast that which is good. John Locke biblical all-things trying This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions. John Locke cat men thinking When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. John Locke degrees should doe The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. John Locke mind ideas thinking There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. John Locke understanding nature animal If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love. John Locke charity christian men Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. John Locke proof diamond math The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. John Locke real simple views It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. John Locke ambition littles lying Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. John Locke cherish curiosity children Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. John Locke men mean thinking He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian. John Locke doctrine deny christian Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. John Locke ignorance use wonder I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. John Locke moments half trying Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. John Locke matter law action Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind. John Locke perception mind men Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security. John Locke ambition hands people Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. John Locke endless-time trying people 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. John Locke information littles men
