1.  It was possible to see both good and bad in any view, and this proved "the vanity as well as the uncertainty of human knowledge".

2.  His aim is not to show that one way of acquiring knowledge is better than another, but that "learning and human knowledge are weak and uncertain'.

3.  The eventual result of this examination was the Essay , whose explicit aim is to "enquire into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together, with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent".

4.  All of this forms a central part of Locke's answer to his initial question about the extent of human knowledge, and whether there is a horizon between what we can and cannot know.

5.  To inquire into "the original, certainty, and extent" of human knowledge was the explicit aim of Locke's great masterpiece, the Essay .

6.  For Berkeley, human knowledge must be concerned either with ideas, or with the minds or spirits which perceive them; for apart from these there is nothing.

7.  It was he who had made the Bible an arbiter of human knowledge.

8.  The Encyclopedie intended to encapsulate and communicate the entire body of (mid-18th century) human knowledge in a structured way.

9.  It is something I, I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions, that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world, erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious, to destruction.

10.  It's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life, every form of thought, and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way, and perhaps just for this very reason, some final and definitive formulation of the, of human nature, of human knowledge, of human conduct, is in principle unobtainable, and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do<