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
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
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.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success...
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.