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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke
Business, Philosophy, War
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke
Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

John Locke
Philosophy, Simple, Men
John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.188

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

John Locke
Philosophy, Law, Political
John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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