Autres citations de John Locke:
"Les hommes oublient toujours que le bonheur est un état d'esprit et non le fruit des circonstances." / "La nécessité de rechercher le véritable bonheur est le fondement de notre liberté."
"No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms."
"Le peuple est le juge suprême de la façon dont les gouvernants remplissent leur mission puisqu'il est la personne qui leur a donné le pouvoir et qui garde à ce titre, la faculté de les révoquer."
"All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." / "Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."
"La connaissance de l'homme ne saurait s'étendre au-delà de sa propre expérience." / "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
"He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance."
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
"Ne soyons pas trop généreux de conseils; gardons-en pour nous-mêmes."
"Le plaisir et la douleur, et ce qui les produit, savoir, le bien et le mal, sont les pivots sur lesquels roulent toutes nos passions." / "Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."
"La vertu est généralement approuvée, non pas parce qu'elle est innée, mais parce qu'elle est utile."
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "
"La politesse est la première et la plus engageante de toutes les vertus sociales."
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
"Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts."
"Children (nay, and men too) do most by example."
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Un autre parmi trois penseurs des lumières écossaises [Thomas Reid (1710-96), David Hume (1711-76) et Adam Smith (1723-90)], est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/080622/la-verite-jaillit-dune-dispute-entre-amis
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