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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.”

John Locke

„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.”

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

John Locke: Cytaty po angielsku

“As to the papists, 'tis certain that several of their dangerous opinions, which are absolutely destructive of all governments but the pope’s, ought not to be tolerated in propagating those opinions; and whosoever shall spread or publish any of them the magistrate is bound to suppress so far as may be sufficient to restrain it…Papists are not to enjoy the benefit of toleration, because, where they have power, they think themselves bound to deny it to others…It being impossible, either by indulgence or severity, to make papists, whilst papists, friends to your government, being enemies to it both in their principles and interest, and therefore considering them as irreconcilable enemies, of whose fidelity you can never be secured whilst they owe a blind obedience to any infallible pope, who hath the keys of their consciences tied to his girdle, and can, upon occasion, dispense with all their oaths, promises, and the obligations they have to their prince, especially being (in their sense) a heretic, and arm them to the disturbance of the government, [I] think they ought not to enjoy the benefit of toleration.”

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An Essay on Toleration (1667), quoted in Mark Goldie (ed.), Locke: Political Essays (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 151-152.

“Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 67
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“And if he be too forward to venture upon his own strength and skill, and perplexity and trouble of a misadventure now and then, that reaches not his innocence, his health, or reputation, may not be an ill way to teach him more caution.”

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Sec. 94
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“faith need not be kept with heretics”
Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos

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Journal entry (25 January 1676), quoted in John Lough (ed.), Locke's Travels in France 1675-1679 (Cambridge University Press, 1953), p. 20.

“Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”

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John Locke książka A Letter Concerning Toleration

A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)

“If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.”

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Sec. 96
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd 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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Sec. 121
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 20, sec. 17
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to…”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 199
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book III, Ch. 10, sec. 31
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 7, sec. 11
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“One thing I have frequently observed in children, that when they have got possession of any poor creature, they are apt to use it ill: they often torment, and treat it very roughly, young birds, butterflies, and such other poor animals which fall into their hands, and that with a seeming kind of pleasure. This I think should be watched in them, and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing of beasts, will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men; and they will delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind. Our practice takes notice of this in the exclusion of butchers from juries of life and death.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 116
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“I doubt not but one great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk'd, and their inquiries neglected. But had they been treated with more kindness and respect, and their questions answered, as they shuold, to their satisfaction; I doubt not but that they would have taken more pleasure in learning, and improving their knowledge, wherein there would still be newness and variety, which is what they are delighted with, than in returning over and over to the same play and play-things.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 118
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“[I am] lover of his king and country, a lover of peace and the protestant interest…[Consent] is absolutely necessary to the very being and subsistance of our government and without which our peace and religion cannot possibly be any way secured…the miscarriages of the former reigns gave a rise and a right to King William's comeing and ushered him into the throne…Let us owne King William to be our King by right…[William came] to recover our oppressed and sinkeing laws, libertys, and Religion…They who would not betray England and expose it to popish rage and revenge, who have any regard to their country, their religion, their consciences, and their estates, must maintain the bulwarke have set up against it, and which alone preserves us against a more violent inundation of all sorts of misery than that we were soe lately delivered from.”

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Letter to Edward Clarke (c. April 1690), quoted in James Farr and Clayton Roberts, 'John Locke on the Glorious Revolution: A Rediscovered Document', The Historical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 385-398.

“He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 206
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Though you give no countenance to the complaints of the querulous, yet take care to curb the insolence and ill nature of the injurious. When you observe it yourself, reprove it before the injur'd party: but if the complaint be of something really worth your notice, and prevention another time, then reprove the offender by himself alone, out of sight of him who complain'd and make him go and ask pardon, and make reparation; which ooming thus, as it were from himself, will be the more cheerfully performed, and more kindly receiv'd, the love strenghten'd between them, and a custom of civility grow familiar amongst your children.”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 109
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?”

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John Locke książka Some Thoughts Concerning Education

I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
Sec. 130
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Sec. 202
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance."”

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John Locke książka An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Źródło: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 22

“This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.”

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John Locke książka Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. VII, sec. 93
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Kontekst: For if it be asked what security, what fence is there in such a state against the violence and oppression of this absolute ruler, the very question can scarce be borne. They are ready to tell you that it deserves death only to ask after safety. Betwixt subject and subject, they will grant, there must be measures, laws, and judges for their mutual peace and security. But as for the ruler, he ought to be absolute, and is above all such circumstances; because he has a power to do more hurt and wrong, it is right when he does it. To ask how you may be guarded from or injury on that side, where the strongest hand is to do it, is presently the voice of faction and rebellion. As if when men, quitting the state of Nature, entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one should be under the restraint of laws; but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of Nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

“We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us.”

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Attributed to Locke on various quotes sites and on social media, this quotation is a false rendering of "We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear" from Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693).
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