{"id":146451,"date":"2022-08-29T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146451"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:13:02","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-locke-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146451","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Locke on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prejudge other men&#8217;s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.\u201d ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.\u201d ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.\u201d ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.\u201d ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All wealth is the product of labor.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What worries you, masters you.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Locke\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Locke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.&#8221; ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 \u2013 28 October 1704 &#8220;The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Locke.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146454,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146451\/revisions\/146454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}