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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Category: Action Author: John Locke
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This tendency [to cruelty] should be watched in them [children], and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even towards men.... And they, who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.... And indeed, I think people from their cradles should be tender to all sensible creatures.... All the entertainment and talk of History is of nothing but fighting and killing; and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind, further mislead youth.
Category: Animal Rights Author: John Locke
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Category: Conformity Author: John Locke
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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.
Category: Daydreaming Author: John Locke
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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
Category: Health Author: John Locke
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
Category: Language Author: John Locke
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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Category: Thinking Author: John Locke
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