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«Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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Parents
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fountain, poisoned, streams, The Fountain
«Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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arbitrary, inconstant, legislative, Legislative power, prescribes, subject to, vest, vested, vests
«We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.»
«To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye»
«Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.»
«New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.»
«Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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Arguments,
Dreams,
Humanity,
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
arguments, reasoning
«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»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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Speech
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abuse, height, mistaken, mysteries, prescription, prescriptions, vague
«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»
«To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.»
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