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
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond experience. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.
Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no way.
Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
It is so vital to everybody who has a stake in the downtown. It is vital to anyone who lives here. It is going to put us on the map.
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender
There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection
Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.
We just want to show the people of this town what the benefits are.
Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.