John Locke Quotes

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.