30 Famous Quotes by John Locke
8/29/1632 - 10/28/1704
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About John Locke
John Locke FRS, widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
Judgment
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. XXI)
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Deed
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
Motives
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Opinions
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Reverie
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
Shadows
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Essay concerning Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. VIII, par. 5)
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.
Reason
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth,
error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our
judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
Errors
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (bk. IV, Of Wrong Assent or Error, ch. XX)
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Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is--
The dawn on the hills of Ireland.
God's angels lifting the night's black veil
From the fair sweet face of my sireland!
O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look
Like a bride in her rich adornin',
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top of the morning.
Ireland
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: The Exile's Return
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O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.
Ireland
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: The Exile's Return
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
Deceit
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Human Understanding (bk. III, ch. X, 34)
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Ignorance
Quotes, by John Locke , Source: Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II)
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Errors
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
Curiosity
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Conversation
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