20 phrases by John Locke to know more about this philosopher

An infinity of beings inferior to the human being proves an infinity of beings superior to him.

Parents wonder why rivers are bitter when they have poisoned the source themselves.

What worries us controls us.

It takes half the time to use the other.

I have always regarded men’s actions as the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The man who lives according to reason has the heart of a sewing machine.

New opinions are always suspect and often opposed, for no other reason than the fact that they are not yet common.

All men are liable to err; and most of them are, in many respects, tempted by passion or interest to do so.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of our mind, not a condition of circumstances.

It is one thing to show a man that he is wrong, another to put him in possession of the truth.

No one can bestow more power than he himself has; and he who cannot take his own life cannot bestow such power on another.

We are like chameleons, we copy our tonality and the color of our moral character from those around us.

Almost everything the story tells is nothing but fights and deaths.

All humanity learns that, being all equal and independent, no one should harm another in his life, his health, his freedom or his goods.

The need to seek true happiness is the foundation of our freedom.

The man exposed to the arbitrary will of a man who commanded a hundred thousand men would be in worse shape than one who was exposed to the arbitrary power of a hundred thousand men alone.

What worries you, enslaves you.

When man is born, his mind is compared to a blank paper, which he fills according to his experiences.

Reading provides the spirit with materials for knowledge, but only thinking makes what we read ours.