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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Quotes

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Source:Book III. Of Words, Chapter X. Of the Abuse of Words
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  • Book: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Writer: John Locke
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1689
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