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Quotes by John Locke
“ 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. ”
“ Stop Traveller! Near this place lieth John Locke. If you ask what kind of a man he was, he answers that he lived content with his own small fortune. Bred a scholar, he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. This thou will learn from his writings, which will show thee everything else concerning him, with greater truth, than the suspect praises of an epitaph. His virtues, indeed, if he had any, were too little for him to propose as matter of praise to himself, or as an example to thee. Let his vices be buried together. As to an example of manners, if you seek that, you have it in the Gospels; of vices, to wish you have one nowhere; if mortality, certainly, (and may it profit thee), thou hast one here and everywhere. ”
“ This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with ''materials'' of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ''We are of the ruminating kind'', and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. ”
“ If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come. But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression. ”
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