Zitate von John Locke
Ein bekanntes Zitat von John Locke:
Die Anmaßung einer Autorität, anderen Vorschriften zu machen, und ein Übereifer, ihre Meinungen zu regeln, ist ein beständiger Begleiter dieser schiefen Richtung und Verderbnis unserer Urteile.
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Philosoph, Wirtschaftsexperte, Schriftsteller, "Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung", "Gedanken über Erziehung", "Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand" (England,1632 - 1704).
John Locke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
John Locke wäre heute 391 Jahre, 7 Monate, 21 Tage oder 143.043 Tage alt.
Geboren am 29.08.1632 in Wrington/Bristol
Gestorben am 28.10.1704 in Oates/Essex
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Weitere 119 Zitate von John Locke
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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None of the things children are to learn should ever be made a burden to them, or imposed on them as a task. Whatever is so imposed presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity . . . in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius and the incomparable Mr Newton . . . 'tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge.
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.
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The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs, which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, not whence it came, but who should have it.
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The greatest art is to present everything that children should do or learn as play.
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The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge, secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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The only way by which any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.
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The rod, which is the only instrument of government that tutors generally know, or ever think of, is the most unfit of any to be used in education.
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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.
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The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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There are very few lovers of truth, for truth-sake, even among those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know, whether he be so, in earnest, is worth enquiry; and I think, there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it, loves not truth fortruth-sake, but for some other by-end.
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This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative.