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Philosoph, Wirtschaftsexperte, Schriftsteller, "Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung", "Gedanken über Erziehung", "Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand" (England,1632 - 1704).

John Locke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Locke wäre heute 392 Jahre, 7 Monate, 4 Tage oder 143.391 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.08.1632 in Wrington/Bristol
Gestorben am 28.10.1704 in Oates/Essex
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• Wir können nicht gut zwei Freuden zu gleicher Zeit genießen, geschweige denn überhaupt irgendein Vergnügen, während wir mit Schmerz beladen sind.
  • Freundschaft
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  • Freude - Lachen - Vergnügen

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• Wir würden viel weniger Streit in der Welt haben, nähme man die Worte für das, was sie sind - lediglich die Zeichen unserer Ideen und nicht die Dinge selbst.
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• [That] ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

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

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• Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

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• 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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• All wealth is the product of labor.

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• Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as straight: and men may be as positive in error as in truth.

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• Error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment giving assent to that which is not true.

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• Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself.

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• General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room.

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• General propositions are seldom mentioned in the huts of Indians: much less are they to be found in the thoughts of children.

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• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

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• He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

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• It is not in the power of the most exalted with or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea.

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

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• Man . . . hath by nature a power . . . to preserve his property-that is, his life, liberty, and estate-against the injuries and attempts of other men.

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• Man being . . . by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

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• Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

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