The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke More Quotes by John Locke More Quotes From John Locke The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of. John Locke foundationlibertyhappiness ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property. John Locke libertymenhands For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good. John Locke lawmenthinking The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. John Locke provisiongivenmean What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us. John Locke reconciletraditionhumanity The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. John Locke markcreationpower To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. John Locke eyedarknessmen If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. John Locke healthuselesshands Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject. John Locke distancepainart He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss John Locke judgementprisonjudging The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. John Locke learninglittlesart Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind. John Locke bodymindmen 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. John Locke sightmemoriesideas Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. John Locke usemindideas When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. John Locke philosophicalreflectiondream Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? John Locke freedomnamesplay Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. John Locke commonlittlesmen As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common. John Locke landdoemen To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. John Locke givingmenbook Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke philosophicalusedream
