John Locke's Profile
Brief about John Locke: By info that we know John Locke was born at 1970-01-01. And also John Locke is English Philosopher.
Some John Locke's quotes. Goto "John Locke's quotation" section for more.There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Tags: Another, Cannot, GreaterA sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Tags: Happy, Mind, WishNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Tags: Common, Opinions, ReasonThe discipline of desire is the background of character.
Tags: Character, Desire, DisciplineThe improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Tags: Ends, Knowledge, OthersThe reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Tags: Men, Society, WhyReverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Tags: Ideas, Mind, ReflectionWe should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
Tags: Great, Themselves, WordsOne unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Tags: Greater, Love, TruthThings of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Tags: Constant, Remains, StateWhere all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Tags: Dream, Knowledge, TruthAny 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.
Tags: Him, Love, ThoughtTo love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Tags: Love, Society, TruthOur 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.
Tags: Him, Time, TryI 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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