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John Locke (64)

Birth:	29th August, 1632
Death:	28th October, 1704
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist, Philosopher, Physician

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• 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.

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• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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• Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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• Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

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• Logic is the anatomy of thought.

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• For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law.

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• All wealth is the product of labor.

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• He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu.

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• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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• I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

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• The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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• The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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• 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.

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• The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

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• Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed.

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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• The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property…. As much as anyone can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labor fix a property in: whatever is beyond this is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

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