Locke Quotes
31 quotes by 20 authors
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
— Samuel Alexander
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If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question…
— Gerald Holton
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UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution…
— James Otis
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My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.…
— Franz Liszt
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation.…
— Robert Trout
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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
— Robert Trout
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
— Robert Trout
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of…
— Robert Trout
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
— William Butler Yeats
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The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
— Samuel Johnson
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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the…
— William Blake
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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between…
— Simon Mainwaring
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He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
— Charles Darwin
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four…
— Scott Lynch
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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the…
— Scott Lynch
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