So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
John LockeUntruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John LockeThe works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
John LockeIt is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John LockeHad you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.
John Locke