The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
John LockeFirmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
John LockeIt is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
John LockeThings of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John LockeThe dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John LockeLet us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
John Locke