Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull

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Don't think you are saved just by your kindness.

John Locke

John Locke

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Men always forget that human happiness is a state of mind and not a condition of circumstances.

John Locke

John Locke

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The hope of an eternal and incomprehensible happiness in another world is also something that brings constant pleasure.

John Locke

John Locke

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The notion that we acquire through the senses of external things, although not as certain as our intuitive knowledge, deserves the name of knowledge.

John Locke

John Locke

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God has created man as a sociable animal, with the inclination and necessity to live together with beings of his own species, and has also endowed him with language, so that it may be the great instrument and common bond of society.

John Locke

John Locke

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Each person is orthodox with respect to themselves.

John Locke

John Locke

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The laws were made for men, and not men for the laws.

John Locke

John Locke

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The only defense against the world is a perfect knowledge of it.

John Locke

John Locke

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The teacher's job is not so much to teach everything that can be learned, but to instill in the student love and esteem for knowledge.

John Locke

John Locke

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Reading provides the mind with only materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read our own.