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Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke
Education, Knowledge, Math

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke
Philosophical, Knowledge, Science
'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 19

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

John Locke
Education, Knowledge, Two
"The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

John Locke
Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

Let 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
Knowledge, Character, Science
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

John Locke
God, Real, Knowledge
John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.714, Library of Alexandria

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