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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

John Locke

Judging, Lasts, Reason

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.538

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

John Locke

Judging, Judgement, Prison

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.179

In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

John Locke

Faith, Ideas, Judging

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

John Locke

Truth, Judging, Mind

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

John Locke

Thinking, Men, Judging

John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.130