83 ordspråk av John Locke
John Locke
John Locke föddes den
August 29th 1632 och dog den 28 October
1704 - who made great contributions in studies of politics, government and psychology.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. The improvement of 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 fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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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
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye
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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu
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