398 Quotes by John Locke

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

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

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.