"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.“
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"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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"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 law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"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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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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