31_days | [January 2010 Themes]

1) he whose body is crazy and feeble

2) constantly round in this circle

3) innocent things which they are joined with

4) a noise in the schools

5) founded neither on reason nor divine revelation

6) absolutely necessary to a gentleman

7) if he have a poetic vein

8) we know but in part

9) a pleasant air, but a barren soil

10) there is no such thing as truth to be sought

11) remote light of an invisible star

12) arbitrary and numerous collections of ideas

13) a perfect abuse of language

14) all their confidence is mere presumption

15) this light they are so dazzled with

16) from their cradles carried toward what is excellent

17) belong not to the real existence of things

18) crooked things may be as stiff and inflexible as straight

19) those who put passion in the place of reason

20) excite those ideas in me

21) what reason a father can have to wish his son a poet

22) error and truth are uncertainly blended

23) a pretty traffic with known correspondents

24) stand for nothing but the ideas of the mind

25) severity carried to the highest pitch

26) every soldier in their army

27) confusion that is so hard to be avoided

28) every man carries about him a touchstone

29) school-men and metaphysicians

30) what I see I know to be so

31) applying old words to new

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This month's theme is the writings of British philosopher John Locke. I love his essays and thought I'd share.

1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 21 and 25 are from Locke's essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education

2, 5, 11, 14, 15, 18, 20 and 30 are from the essay Dangers of Enthusiasm

8, 19, 22, 23 and 28 are from the essay Why Men Reason So Poorly

And lastly, 4, 12, 13, 17, 24, 26, 27, 29 and 31 are from the essay Language and Its Proper Use