John Locke

English philosopher and physician.

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What is the origin of good?

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.

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What is the origin of evil?

All men are liable to error - and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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What is the nature of the mind?

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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How do you find happiness?

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World - he that has these two, has little more to wish for - and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

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How do you find truth?

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

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What is the meaning of life?

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.

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Who or what is God?

As men, we have God for our King, and are under the law of reason - as Christians, we have Jesus the Messiah for our King, and are under the law revealed by him in the gospel.

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What question is missing?

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs - has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

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