John Locke
John Locke
John Locke FRSwas an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth29 August 1632
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.