John Locke citáty

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„Co vás trápí, to vás ovládá.“

„Žádná strast není tak velká jako strach před ní.“

„Veškeré učení má být pro děti hrou a sportem.“

„Lidé nemohou být ke svému blahu nuceni, proto musí být ponecháni vlastnímu svědomí.“

„Četba zásobuje naši mysl pouze materiálem vědomostí. Teprve myšlením se zmocňujeme toho, co jsme přečetli.“

„Všichni jsme omylní a ochotně se dopouštíme chyb, když nás žene prospěch nebo vášeň.“

„Nepřehlížejte dětské chyby, které přerůstají v chyby mužů. Nehovte nikdy dětským vrtochům.“

„Dětem je třeba učinit život tak zábavný a příjemný, jak jen to jde.“

„Síla našeho přesvědčení není konečně důkazem jeho správnosti.“

„Úspěch v boji znamená nepřicházet k soupeři tak, jak chce on s vámi bojovat.“

„Vzpoura je právo lidí.“

„Naše úloha zde není znát všechny věci, ale ty, které se týkají našeho jednání.“

„Nejsou žádné vrozené ideje.“

„Teprve myšlením se zmocňujeme toho, co jsme četli.“

„Potřeba hledat opravdové štěstí je základem naší svobody..“

„Zvědavost by měla být u dětí stejně opatrná, jako potlačování jiných chutí.“

„Přednost zlozvyku vůči ctnosti, znamená nesprávný úsudek.“

„Nic není v intelektu, co nebylo ve smyslech.“

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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…”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”

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

“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.”

“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.”