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
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Don't tell me what I can't do!
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.