John Locke Quotes about Evil

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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

John Locke

Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

Philosophical, Evil, Perspective

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

John Locke

Karma, Men, Evil

John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

John Locke

Pain, Thinking, Evil

John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.52

John Locke Quotes about Evil

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