John Locke citáty
John Locke
Datum narození: 29. srpen 1632
Datum úmrtí: 28. říjen 1704
John Locke [džon lok] byl anglický filosof. Proslul zejména svou empiristickou teorií poznání a svou politickou filosofií, v níž hájil přirozenou svobodu a rovnost lidí. Hluboce ovlivnil britské osvícenství a pozdější liberální myšlení.
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Citáty John Locke
„Svoboda tvé pěsti končí na špičce mého nosu“
— John Locke, kniha Two Treatises of Government
Two Treatises of Government (Dvě pojednání o vládě)
„Nejsou žádné vrozené ideje.“
Zdroj: Slovník myslitelů. Velké postavy západního myšlení, str. 272, ISBN 80-7260-002-8
„The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation“
— John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 145
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.
„Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.“
As quoted in "Hand Book : Caution and Counsels" in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, p. 371
Kontext: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
„He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.“
— John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 71; Note: Here Locke quotes Juvenal
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. Maxima debetur pueris reverentia [The greatest respect is owed to the children].
„None of the things they learn, should ever be“
— John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 73
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: None of the things they learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos's on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed, presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency. Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day, whether he has or has not a mind to it; let this be but requir'd of him as a duty, wherein he must spend so many hours morning and afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any play at this rate. Is it not so with grown men?