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Description: John Dewey quote: I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Description: John Locke quote: The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions...

Description: John Locke quote: Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.

Description: John Locke quote: Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

Description: John Locke quote: Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

Description: John Locke quote: Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Description: John Locke quote: The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.

Description: John Locke quote: We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Description: John Locke quote: A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Description: Denis Diderot: We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Description: John Locke quote: The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief.

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

Description: John Locke quote: All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Description: John Locke quote: But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

Description: John Locke quote: It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

Description: John Locke quote: This life affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of having done well, and the hopes of another life.

Description: John Locke quote: There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so.

Description: John Locke quote: To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Description: John Locke quote: No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.

Description: John Locke quote: I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout fardeau est fait pour être secoué.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!

Description: Denis Diderot: It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Description: Denis Diderot: In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Description: Denis Diderot: What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days. You judge of the continuous existence of the world, as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are eternal to the being that lives but for one instant. Yet the insect is the more reasonable of the two...

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée.

Description: Denis Diderot: As for our celebrated lawgivers, who have cast us in our present awkward mold, you may be sure that they have acted to serve their interests and not ours. Witness all our political, civil, and religious institutions — examine them thoroughly: unless I am very much mistaken, you will see how, through the ages, the human race has been broken to the halter that a handful of rascals were itching to impose. Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Description: Denis Diderot: When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Description: Denis Diderot: From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Description: Denis Diderot: There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Description: Denis Diderot: Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.