John Locke Quotes

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

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.

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.

Don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using what you do have.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

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

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.