Bread, or water, or wine, which are the ordinary food and nourishment of the body, yet are not by nature bread, water, or wine, but become so by the application of the mind.
Empiricism, natural rights
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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"The strength of a man's mind is only to be estimated by the weight of the truths it can contain."
Humorous"It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach."
Humorous"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"The greatest part of mankind are more disposed to suffer, whilst evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Shocking"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
Humorous