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John Locke Quotes

John Locke quotes about mind

English Philosopher August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else. John Locke
For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come. John Locke
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real... John Locke
John Locke quote: "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;..."
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it's thinkingthat makes what we read ours. John Locke
John Locke quote: "Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or..."
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. John Locke

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