Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke1802 |
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Side 30
... supposed , and are not mere chimeras with a supposed existence . SECT . X. PREJUDICES . EVERY one is forward to complain of the pre- judices that mislead other men or parties , as if he were free and had none of his own . This being ...
... supposed , and are not mere chimeras with a supposed existence . SECT . X. PREJUDICES . EVERY one is forward to complain of the pre- judices that mislead other men or parties , as if he were free and had none of his own . This being ...
Side 59
... supposed , most properlythe business of those who pretend to improve their understand- ings , and make themselves knowing by reading . Books and reading are looked upon to be the great helps of the understanding , and instruments of ...
... supposed , most properlythe business of those who pretend to improve their understand- ings , and make themselves knowing by reading . Books and reading are looked upon to be the great helps of the understanding , and instruments of ...
Side 69
... is to him so much knowledge about nothing , and amounts at most but to a learned ignorance . It is not without all reason supposed , that there are many such empty terms to be found in some learned BEAUTIES OF LOCKE . 69 stood.
... is to him so much knowledge about nothing , and amounts at most but to a learned ignorance . It is not without all reason supposed , that there are many such empty terms to be found in some learned BEAUTIES OF LOCKE . 69 stood.
Side 81
... supposed , but evidenced in themselves , put coloured spectacles before their eyes , and look on things through false glasses , and then think themselves excused in following the false ap- pearances , which they themselves put upon them ...
... supposed , but evidenced in themselves , put coloured spectacles before their eyes , and look on things through false glasses , and then think themselves excused in following the false ap- pearances , which they themselves put upon them ...
Side 99
... supposed to reject any arms that may help to defend their cause , and therefore such should be read with the greatest caution . And they who write for opi- nions they are sincerely persuaded of , and believe to be true , think they may ...
... supposed to reject any arms that may help to defend their cause , and therefore such should be read with the greatest caution . And they who write for opi- nions they are sincerely persuaded of , and believe to be true , think they may ...
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Side 163 - And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Side 47 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Side 228 - ... antipathies observable in men, which work as strongly and produce as regular effects as if they were natural; and are therefore called so, though they at first had no other original but the accidental connexion of two ideas, which either the strength of the first impression or future indulgence so united that they always afterwards kept company together in that man's mind, as if they were but one idea. I say most of the antipathies, I do not say all: for some of them are truly natural, depend...
Side 13 - ... of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories. This is apt to be taken for the effect of pure nature, and that the rather because it is not got by rules, and...
Side 20 - Just so it is in the mind : would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures...
Side 245 - Light, true light, in the mind is, or can be, nothing else but the evidence of the truth of any proposition; and if it be not a self-evident proposition, all the light it has, or can have, is from the clearness and validity of those proofs upon which it is received. To talk of any other light in the understanding is to put ourselves in the dark, or in the power of the Prince of Darkness, and, by our own consent, to give ourselves up to delusion to believe a lie.
Side 12 - A middle-aged ploughman will scarce ever be brought to the carriage and language of a gentleman, though his body be as well proportioned, and his joints as supple, and his natural parts not any way inferior. The legs of a dancing-master, and the fingers of a musician, fall as it were naturally, without thought or pains, into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain...
Side 226 - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Side 225 - I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as "madness" when it is considered that opposition to reason deserves that name, and is really madness; and there is scarce a man so free from it but that if he should always, on all occasions, argue or do as in some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam than civil conversation.
Side 5 - ... of him in capacity, quickness, and penetration : for, since no one sees all, and we generally have, different prospects of the same thing, according to our different, as I may say, positions to it ; it is not incongruous to think, nor beneath any man to try, whether another may not have notions of things, which have escaped him, and which his reason would make use of if they came into his mind.