John Locke
English philosopher (1632 to 1704); Oxford academic and medical researcher; author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government.
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New opinions are usually opposed just for being uncommon, but a truth is no less true for being new
Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
gutenberg.orgSaid 24 May 1689This on korrents
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New opinions are usually opposed just for being uncommon, but a truth is no less true for being new
Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
Human understanding is bright enough for all our purposes, and its limits are no excuse for idleness
It will be no excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candle light, to plead that he had not broad sunshine. The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
Our task is not to know everything, but to know what concerns our conduct
Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
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The argument from universal consent seems rather to show there are no innate principles, since none has universal assent
But, which is worse, this argument of universal consent, which is made use of to prove innate principles, seems to me a demonstration that there are none such: because there are none to which all mankind give an universal assent.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
Hoping to know through other people's understanding is probably as unreasonable as hoping to see through their eyes
For I think we may as rationally hope to see with other men’s eyes, as to know by other men’s understandings. So much as we ourselves consider and comprehend of truth and reason, so much we possess of real and true knowledge.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
All the materials of reason and knowledge come from experience
Whence has it all the MATERIALS of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Said 24 May 1689
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