New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Empiricism, natural rights
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Empiricism, natural rights
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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"I have always found that the best way to learn anything is to teach it to others."
Strange & Unusual"Let us then 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 fan…"
Humorous"The mind is like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas."
Strange & Unusual"Every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."
Shocking"Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property."
Humorous