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John Locke – angielski filozof, lekarz, polityk i ekonomista. Twórca klasycznej postaci empiryzmu i liberalizmu. W ekonomii stworzył teorię wartości pieniądza, która stała się początkiem kierunku ekonomicznego zwanego monetaryzmem.

Najważniejsze dzieła Johna Locke'a : List o tolerancji , Dwa traktaty o rządzie , Rozważania dotyczące rozumu ludzkiego , Myśli o wychowaniu .

✵ 29. Sierpień 1632 – 28. Październik 1704
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John Locke: 156 cytatów2 Polubienia

John Locke słynne cytaty

„Bogactwo jest produktem pracy.”

John Locke

„Nic nie zachodzi bez przyczyny.”

John Locke

dosłownie: Wszystko się dzieje z jakiegoś powodu.
Everything happens for a reason. (ang.)
Źródło: Filozofia francuskiego Oświecenia, wyb. Bronisław Baczko, PWN, 1961, s. 98.

„Nieomylnym znakiem umiłowania prawdy jest nieprzyjmowanie żadnych teorii z pewnością większą, niż pozwalają na to dowody, na których się one opierają.”

John Locke

„Jakaż szkoda, że dzieci z biednych rodzin są stracone dla rynku pracy do dwunastego czy czternastego roku życia.”

John Locke

Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 117.

„(…) całym celem rządu jest tworzenie prawa dla regulacji i ochrony własności oraz dla obrony wspólnoty przed agresją zewnętrzną, wszystko to zaś – jedynie dla dobra publicznego.”

John Locke

Źródło: Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Filozofia, Poznań 1994, tłum. Jan Karłowski, Norbert Leśniewski, Andrzej Przyłębski, s. 115.

„Że Bóg istnieje, to jest tak pewne jak to, że dwa kąty przeciwległe, utworzone przez przecięcie dwu linii prostych są sobie równe.”

John Locke

Źródło: Jerzy Kochan, Niebieskie oczy Kanta, „Nowa Krytyka” http://www.nowakrytyka.pl/spip.php?article180

„Stopień ekscentryczności w społeczeństwie jest proporcjonalny do zawartego w nim geniuszu, materialnego wigoru i odwagi moralnej.”

John Locke

„Siła naszych przekonań nie dowodzi ich słuszności.”

John Locke

Źródło: „Dziś”, t. 9, Kier, 1998, s. 74.

John Locke Cytaty o wolności

„Naturalną wolnością człowieka jest bycie niezależnym od jakiejkolwiek nadrzędnej władzy na Ziemi oraz niepodleganie woli lub władzy prawodawczej człowieka, ale bycie rządzonym jedynie przez prawo Natury.”

John Locke

Źródło: Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay (1690), rozdz. 4

„Celem prawa nie jest obalenie czy też ograniczenie, ale zachowanie i rozszerzanie wolności; jako, że we wszystkich państwach, w których żyją stworzenia zdolne do tworzenia prawa, tam, gdzie nie ma prawa nie ma wolności. Wolność oznacza wolność od ograniczeń i przemocy stosowanej przez innych, czego nie można osiągnąć tam, gdzie nie istnieje prawo; ale wolnośc nie polega na tym, jak się często uważa: na swobodzie każdego do robienia czego tylko zechce – bo któż mógłby być wolnym, gdyby humor kogokolwiek mógł panować nad nim? – wolność polega na swobodzie dysponowania… działaniami, majątkiem i całą swą własnością, w ramach prawa, które człowiekowi przysługują.”

John Locke

Źródło: Dawid R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie, Clark Nardinelli, Ekonomia, Fundacja Gospodarcza NSZZ Solidarność, Warszawa 1989.

„Celem prawa nie jest obalenie czy też ograniczenie, ale zachowanie i rozszerzanie wolności; jako, że we wszystkich państwach, w których żyją stworzenia zdolne do tworzenia prawa, tam, gdzie nie ma prawa nie ma wolności. Wolność oznacza wolność od ograniczeń i przemocy stosowanej przez innych, czego nie można osiągnąć tam, gdzie nie istnieje prawo; ale wolność nie polega na tym, jak się często uważa: na swobodzie każdego do robienia czego tylko zechce – bo któż mógłby być wolnym, gdyby humor kogokolwiek mógł panować nad nim?”

John Locke

wolność polega na swobodzie dysponowania… działaniami, majątkiem i całą swą własnością, w ramach prawa, które człowiekowi przysługują.
Źródło: Dawid R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie, Clark Nardinelli, Ekonomia, Fundacja Gospodarcza NSZZ Solidarność, Warszawa 1989.

John Locke: Cytaty po angielsku

“A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=gRNDLAK4kPUC&pg=PA281

“Covetousness, and the desire of having in our possession, and under our dominion, more than we have need of, being the root of all evil, should be early and carefully weeded out, and the contrary quality of a readiness to impart to others, implanted. This should be encourag'd by great commendation and credit, and constantly taking care that he loses nothing by his liberality.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 110
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Let me give two cautions. 1) The one is, that you keep them to the practice of what you would have grow into a habit with them, by kind words, and gentle admonitions, rather as minding them of what they forget, than by harsh rebukes and chiding, as if they were wilfully guilty. 2) Another thing you are to take care of, is, not to endeavour to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none. When constant custom has made any one thing easy and natural to 'em, and they practice it without reflection, you may then go on to another.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 66
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Let him sensibly perceive, that the kindness he shews to others, is no ill husbandry for himself; but that it brings a return in kindness both from those that receive it, and those who look on. Make this a contest among children, who shall out-do one another in this way: and by this means, by a constant practise, children having made it easy to themselves to part with what they have, good nature may be settled in them into a habit, and they may take pleasure, and pique themselves in being kind, liberal and civil, to others.”

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Sec. 110
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 139
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.”

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Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.”

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Sec. 118
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

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Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.”

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Sec. 82
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

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Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Encourage therefore his inquisitiveness all you can, by satisfying his demands, and informing his judgement, as far as it is capable. When his reasons are any way tolerable, let him find the credit and commendation of it, without being laugh'd at for his mistake be gently put into the right; and if he shew a forwardness to be reasoning about things that come in his way, take care, as much as you can, that no body check this inclination in him, or mislead it by captious or fallacious ways of talking with him. For when all is done, this is the highest and most important faculty of our minds, deserves the greatest care and attention in cultivating it: the right improvement, and exercise of our reason being the highest perfection that a man can attain to in his life.”

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Sec. 122
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book III, Ch. 6, sec. 37
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“He [Jesus] not only forbids actual uncleanness, but all irregular desires, upon pain of hell-fire; causeless divorces; swearing in conversation, as well as forswearing in judgment; revenge; retaliation; ostentation of charity, of devotion, and of fasting; repetitions in prayer, covetousness, worldly care, censoriousness: and on the other side commands loving our enemies, doing good to those that hate us, blessing those that curse us, praying for those that despitefully use us; patience and meekness under injuries, forgiveness, liberality, compassion: and closes all; his particular injunctions, with this general golden rule, Matt. VII. 12, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." And to show how much He is in earnest, and expects obedience to these laws, He tells them, Luke VI. 35, That if they obey, " great shall be their reward."”

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John Locke

§ 116
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ's kingdom; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.”

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John Locke

§ 233
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Enjoin him to play so many hours every day, and look that he do it; and you shall see he will quickly be sick of it; and willing to leave it. By this means making the recreations you dislike a business to him, he will of himself with delight betake himself to those things you would have him do, especially if they be proposed as rewards for having performed the task in that play which is commanded of him.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 129
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 107
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“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.”

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Sec. 35
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.”

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Sec. 116
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The law of faith, being a covenant of free grace, God alone can appoint what shall be necessarily believed by everyone whom He will justify. What is the faith which He will accept and account for righteousness, depends wholly on his good pleasure. For it is of grace, and not of right, that this faith is accepted. And therefore He alone can set the measures of it: and what he has so appointed and declared is alone necessary. No-body can add to these fundamental articles of faith; nor make any other necessary, but what God himself hath made, and declared to be so. And what these are which God requires of those who will enter into, and receive the benefits of the new covenant, has already been shown. An explicit belief of these is absolutely required of all those to whom the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, and salvation through his name proposed.”

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John Locke

§ 156
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.”

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Sec. 71
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.”

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Sec. 54
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 18
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“Popery so threatens and so nearly surrounds us…every sober man would think it seasonable at this time that all dissenting Protestants should be brought to a good understanding and compliance one with another…I think all Protestants ought now by all ways to be stirred up against them [Catholics] as People that have declared themselves ready by blood, violence, and destruction to ruine our Religion and Government…[they] are nothing but either Enemys in our bowells or spies among us, whilst their General commanders whom they blindly obey declare warr, and an unalterable designe to destroy us.”

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'Critical Notes Upon Edward Stillingfleet's Mischief and Unreasonableness of Separation' (c. May 1681), quoted in John Marshall, John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 110

“He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.”

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§ 232
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Truly, if the preservation of all mankind, as much as in him lies, were every one's persuasion, as indeed it is every one's duty, and the true principle to regulate our religion, politicks and morality by, the world would be much quieter, and better natur'd than it is.”

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Sec. 116
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“This I think is sufficiently evident, that children generally hate to be idle. All the care then is, that their busy humour should be constantly employ'd in something of use to them; which, if you will attain, you must make what you would have them do a recreation to them, and not a business.”

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Sec. 129
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage…”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. XII, sec. 143
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. IX, sec. 123
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 110
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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