398 Quotes by John Locke

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

In the beginning, all the world was America.

Any 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.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.