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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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1 Ded | own growth, and in much greater perfection. Worthless things 2 Read | so it is employed with a greater and more constant delight 3 I, II | of this rule cannot be a greater vice, than to teach others, 4 I, II | young folk; and custom, a greater power than nature, seldom 5 I, III | to be acquainted with a greater variety of sensible objects; 6 I, III | part of men, making far the greater number, took up their notions 7 I, III | that perhaps we should make greater progress in the discovery 8 II, I | they converse with afford greater or less variety; and from 9 II, VII | one degree, by a little greater increase of it proves no 10 II, VIII | that if that motion be greater in one hand than in the 11 II, VIII | in its minute particles a greater motion than in those of 12 II, X | enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior 13 II, XV | together ~1. Both capable of greater and less. Though we have 14 II, XV | continued lengths, capable of greater or less quantities. For 15 II, XVI | it from every smaller or greater multitude of units. So that 16 II, XVI | discoursed with of those greater numbers, they would show 17 II, XVII | degree of whiteness to a greater, we are so far from increasing, 18 II, XVII | as it will, it can be no greater than it is,)—to join infinity 19 II, XVII | understanding: but infinite is still greater. 1. Then the idea of so 20 II, XVII | and clear. 2. The idea of greater is also clear; but it is 21 II, XVII | idea, the idea of so much greater as cannot be comprehended. 22 II, XVII | intimation of being still greater. For to say, that, having 23 II, XVII | say that that quantity is greater. So that the negation of 24 II, XVII | adding this idea of still greater to all the ideas you have, 25 II, XX | we call desire; which is greater or less, as that uneasiness 26 II, XXI | proposed, which are the far greater number. For, considering 27 II, XXI | absurdities, nothing can be of greater use than to establish in 28 II, XXI | or not to leap. But if a greater force than his, either holds 29 II, XXI | generally supposed, the greater good in view; but some ( 30 II, XXI | us more powerfully than greater pleasures in prospect draw 31 II, XXI | mankind, that good, the greater good, determines the will, 32 II, XXI | conclude that good, the greater good, though apprehended 33 II, XXI | pursuit of this confessed greater good; but any other uneasiness 34 II, XXI | such as he confesses is far greater than the tickling of his 35 II, XXI | not want of viewing the greater good; for he sees and acknowledges 36 II, XXI | resolutions to pursue the greater good; but when the uneasiness 37 II, XXI | the attainment of those greater goods. And thus he is, from 38 II, XXI | appears in contemplation greater or less to the understanding, 39 II, XXI | unavoidable that the infinitely greater possible good should regularly 40 II, XXI | If it were so that the greater good in view determines 41 II, XXI | considered and in view the greater good. But that it is not 42 II, XXI | lose it: and whenever a greater uneasiness than that takes 43 II, XXI | comes in competition with a greater of its sort; because, when 44 II, XXI | of pain, as well as every greater degree of pleasure, has 45 II, XXI | himself and others,—That the greater visible good does not always 46 II, XXI | desires are not moved by this greater apparent good, nor their 47 II, XXI | such determination is, the greater is the perfection. Nay, 48 II, XXI | the pleasure of seeing be greater to you than that of drinking, 49 II, XXI | being just so great and no greater than it is felt, the present 50 II, XXI | evil; that which is the greater pleasure, or the greater 51 II, XXI | greater pleasure, or the greater pain, is really just as 52 II, XXI | view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size 53 II, XXI | in possession, part with greater ones in reversion. But that 54 II, XXI | obtains the preference as the greater. I mention not here the 55 II, XXI | proceeding, to venture a greater good for a less, upon uncertain 56 II, XXI | desires on every apparent greater good, unless it be judged 57 II, XXI | considered as a means to a greater and more desirable end. 58 II, XXI | but every good, nay, every greater good, does not constantly 59 II, XXIII | consequences that carry greater difficulty, and more apparent 60 II, XXIII | perfecter knowledge and greater happiness than we, must 61 II, XXVI | we have at that time of greater or less power. Thus, when 62 II, XXVIII| ideas. We have a further and greater concernment, and that is, 63 II, XXIX | particular the ideas are, and the greater and more determinate the 64 II, XXIX | that great one with still a greater: but it not being possible 65 II, XXIX | with a surplus of still greater; about which, when we would 66 II, XXXI | particular shining yellowness; a greater weight than anything I know 67 II, XXXII | thoughts the negation of a greater degree of fixedness than 68 II, XXXII | 4) The mistake is yet greater, when I judge that this 69 II, XXXIII| though he be guilty of much greater unreasonableness in his 70 II, XXXIII| universally infects mankind, the greater care should be taken to 71 II, XXXIII| name, thereby to excite the greater care in its prevention and 72 III, I | commonly universal ones, has greater connexion with words than 73 III, III | out of necessity, or for greater clearness, but for quickness 74 III, V | have in nature. For what greater connexion in nature has 75 III, VI | complex idea contains a greater, and in others a smaller 76 III, IX | opinions, we are under no greater necessity to know them, 77 III, IX | of fire; and how much a greater number of changes any of 78 III, IX | does not communicate with a greater, and in others a less number 79 III, IX | referred to, are liable to yet greater imperfection and uncertainty, 80 III, X | nothing but great folly, or greater dishonesty. And a man, in 81 III, X | but to me it appears a greater dishonesty than the misplacing 82 III, X | debt; and the cheat the greater, by how much truth is of 83 III, X | by how much truth is of greater concernment and value than 84 III, XI | collection of a smaller or greater number of sensible qualities, 85 IV, II | therefore not require a greater: for a man cannot conceive 86 IV, II | conceive himself capable of a greater certainty than to know that 87 IV, II | same. He that demands a greater certainty than this, demands 88 IV, II | ordered as to reflect the greater number of globules of light, 89 IV, II | sends to the retina the greater number of such corpuscles, 90 IV, III | operations had been yet much greater.~17. Of the powers that 91 IV, III | sensible marks, which have a greater and nearer correspondence 92 IV, III | Another thing that makes the greater difficulty in ethics is, 93 IV, III | expected of this kind? What greater light can be hoped for in 94 IV, III | whole intellectual world; a greater certainty, and more beautiful 95 IV, IV | should think of things with greater freedom and less confusion 96 IV, VII | certainty that cannot be greater; and, therefore, the truth 97 IV, VII | proposition can be known with a greater certainty, nor add anything 98 IV, VII | with them an equal, if not greater clearness, than those mathematical 99 IV, VIII | shall perhaps find that a greater part of them than is usually 100 IV, X | it should put into itself greater angles than two right ones.~ 101 IV, X | one another, just as the greater do; and that is all they 102 IV, XI | enough, when no man requires greater certainty to govern his 103 IV, XI | wakened into a certainty greater than he could wish, that 104 IV, XII | thoughts further, and with greater evidence and clearness than 105 IV, XII | rightly directed, may be of greater benefit to mankind than 106 IV, XIV | might lead us to a state of greater perfection. It being highly 107 IV, XV | the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability on 108 IV, XVI | upon the whole matter, in a greater or less degree to preponderate 109 IV, XVII | repeated, and spun out to a greater length in artificial forms, 110 IV, XVII | things considered, is the greater probability.~6. Serves not 111 IV, XVII | danger of the mistake is the greater. For each agreement or disagreement 112 IV, XVII | the clearer evidence and greater probability. But since reason 113 IV, XVIII | and seen it. For he has no greater an assurance than that of 114 IV, XVIII | our assurance can be no greater than our knowledge is, that 115 IV, XVIII | being a divine revelation greater than our own knowledge. 116 IV, XVIII | whose revelation has not a greater evidence than those principles 117 IV, XVIII | permit the mind to reject a greater evidence to embrace what 118 IV, XIX | entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs 119 IV, XIX | them into an opinion of a greater familiarity with God, and 120 IV, XX | affirm that there is a greater distance between some men 121 IV, XX | to the side on which the greater probability appears. Whether 122 IV, XX | odds appear on either. The greater probability, I think, in 123 IV, XX | where he perceives the greater probability, than he can


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