Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 29, 1632 Death: October 28, 1704
Logic is the anatomy of thought..
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself..
With books we stand on the shoulders of giants..
The discipline of desire is the background of character..
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience..
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, ru….
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins..
Who lies for you will lie against you..
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else..
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making..
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves..
What worries you, masters you..
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes..
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all quali….
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have..
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight..
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where ther….
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which….
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 o….
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip..