The more you know, the less you need.
Empiricism, scientific method
Not directly found in his major works, but a common paraphrase of his ideas about knowledge and necessity.
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
Humorous"The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to search it out."
Humorous"The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human nature."
Shocking"The mind of man is far from a clear and even mirror, but is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstitions and impostures."
Shocking"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."
Shocking