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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.

„Na początku cały świat był Ameryką, nawet bardziej niż ta dzisiejsza…”

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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„Siła naszych przekonań nie dowodzi ich słuszności.”

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

John Locke Cytaty o wolności

„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?”

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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.

„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.”

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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.

John Locke: Cytaty po angielsku

“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, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”

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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 eyes.”

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“Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.”

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Źródło: Vegas Moon

“All wealth is the product of labor.”

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“Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”

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Źródło: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2

“The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs… has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Źródło: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 1
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“…when I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reason able thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world; especially to those, who thought either that there was no need of revelation at all, or that the revelation of our Saviour required the belief of such articles for salvation, which the settled notions, and their way of reasoning in some, and want of understanding in others, made impossible to them. Upon these two topics the objections seemed to turn, which were with most assurance made by deists, against Christianity; but against Christianity misunderstood. It seemed to me, that there needed no more to show them the weakness of their exceptions, but to lay plainly before them the doctrine of our Saviour and his apostles, as delivered in the scriptures, and not as taught by the several sects of Christians.”

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Preface to the Reader
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 94
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“There is no virtue they should be excited to, nor fault they should be kept from, which I do not think they may be convinced of; but it must be by such reasons as their age and understandings are capable of, and those propos'd always in very few and plain words.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 81
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. II, sec. 4
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“Those truly natural wants, which reason alone, without some other help, is not able to fence against, nor keep from disturbing us. The pains of sickness and hurts, hunger, thirst, and cold, want of sleep and rest or relaxation of the part weary'd with labour, are what all men feel and the best dispos'd minds cannot but be sensible of their uneasiness; and therefore ought, by fit applications, to seek their removal, though not with impatience, or over great haste, upon the first approaches of them, where delay does not threaten some irreparable harm. The pains that come from the necessities of nature, are monitors to us to beware of greater mischiefs, which they are the forerunner of; and therefore they must not be wholly neglected, and strain'd too far. But yet the more children can be inur'd to hardships of this kind, by a wise care to make them stronger in body and mind, the better it will be for them.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 107
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“When by these steps he has got resolution enough not to be deterr'd from what he ought to do, by the apprehension of danger; when fear does not, in sudden or hazardous occurrences, decompose his mind, set his body a-trembling, and make him unfit for action, or run away from it, he has then the courage of a rational creature: and such an hardiness we should endeavour by custom and use to bring children to, as proper occasions come in our way.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.”

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187
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“…the church of England, when she baptizes any one, makes him not a Christian […] the church of England is mistaken, and makes none but socinians Christians”

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279
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“…faith and repentance, i. e. believing Jesus to be the Messiah, and a good life, are the indispensable conditions of the new covenant, to be performed by all those who would obtain eternal life. (The reasonableness, or rather necessity of which, that we may the better comprehend, we must a little look back to what was said in the beginning”

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§ 106
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is… carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. …Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses… 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 145
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.”

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This might be a paraphrase of some of Locke's expressions or ideas, but the earliest publication of the statement in this form seems to be one made in Oversight Hearing on the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (1997).
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“The old question will be asked in this matter of prerogative, But who shall be judge when this power is made a right use of? 1 answer: between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth; as there can be none between the legislative and the people, should either the executive, or the legislative, when they have got the power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave or destroy them. The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands, (who can never be supposed to consent that any body should rule over them for their harm) do that which they have not a right to do. And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man's power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation: and since he cannot take away his own life, neither can he give another power to take it. Nor let any one think, this lays a perpetual foundation for disorder; for this operates not, till the inconveniency is so great, that the majority feel it, and are weary of it, and find a necessity to have it amended. But this the executive power, or wise princes, never need come in the danger of: and it is the thing, of all others, they have most need to avoid, as of all others the most perilous.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr14.htm, Sec. 168
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. Thus no Body has any Right to but himself.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, sec. 27
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“Since sounds have no natural connection with our ideas … the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification … has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than another to signify any idea.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book III, Ch. 9, sec. 4
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“The softer you find your child is, the more you are to seek occasions, at fit times, thus to harden him. The great art in this is, to begin with what is but very little painful, and to proceed by insensible degrees, when you are playing, and in good humour with him, and speaking well of him: and when you have once got him to think himself made amends for his suffering by the praise is given him for his courage; when he can take pride in giving such marks of his manliness, and can prefer the reputation of being brave and stout, to the avoiding a little pain, or the shrinking under it; you need nor despair in time and by the assistance of his growing reason, to master his timorousness, and mend the weakness of his constitution.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.”

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This statement has been attributed to John A. Locke, but John Locke did not have a middle name. The words "dynamic," "boring" and "repetitive," found in this quote, were not yet in use in Locke's time. (See The Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/abbr.php.) John A. Locke is listed on one site as having lived from 1899 to 1961; no more information about him was available.
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