Quotes About Locke

#1. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.

Scott Lynch

#3. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Scott Lynch

#4. John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Bertrand Russell

#5. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#6. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke

Robert Jackson Bennett

#7. John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during

Steven Johnson

#8. Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Russell Kirk

#9. Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

Scott Lynch

#10. Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.

Scott Lynch

#11. I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

Taran Killam

#12. You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.

Scott Lynch

#13. Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

William Butler Yeats

#14. Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?"
"On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions.

Scott Lynch

#15. How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?" "For shame," said Galdo. "There's no Sanzas here, remember? I'm an Asino." "Oh yes," said Locke with a yawn. "Yes, you certainly are.

Scott Lynch

#16. Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.

Scott Lynch

#17. Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#18. Chains reached over and grabbed Locke's fist, then mimed swinging it into Calo's jaw. "Repeat as necessary," said Chains, "until your problems are spitting up teeth.

Scott Lynch

#19. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.

Scott Lynch

#20. Locke moaned.
'Quit sobbing, you damn baby,' Jean hissed as he began to lope back along the dock. 'You must have at least a half beer glass of blood left somewhere in there.'
But Locke was now well and truly unconscious ...

Scott Lynch

#21. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.

Steven Pinker

#22. We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry.

Scott Lynch

#23. Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him.

Scott Lynch

#24. Nah, if she's the rose, he can be her thorn." Calo snapped his fingers. "The Thorn of Camorr! Now, that's got some shine to it!"
"That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#25. Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be ... thoroughly ... um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

#26. It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out

Scott Lynch

#27. You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke.
"Actually you look like you were executed last week.

Scott Lynch

#28. I mean, it's not calling me 'Locke.' It knows my real name.

Scott Lynch

#29. Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#30. Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them.

Scott Lynch

#31. Son of a bitch," said Locke, "but I am displeased. It all comes down to clothes. Clothes, clothes, clothes. What a ridiculous thing to be restrained by.

Scott Lynch

#32. Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

Scott Lynch

#33. But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Samuel Alexander

#34. Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#35. I've been with Mr. Locke for several hundred years now." He tossed her a wink. "I should hope in that time he would share with me his undead state. Had he not, I would have been rather perplexed as I celebrated 100 years of age and still looked 45.

Jennifer Turner

#36. Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

Marvin Ammori

#37. [W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'
...
'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#38. There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him. It trumped his face, his ink, his body, everything. Dex Locke was true. He was grounded.

Mariana Zapata

#39. You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

Ben Mendelsohn

#40. My, you are in a sad state. You believe you've been poisoned?" "No," said Locke with a cough. "I fell down some fucking stairs. What's it look like?

Scott Lynch

#41. I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Scott Lynch

#42. when John Locke published his celebrated Letters concerning toleration in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, he still excluded Roman Catholics and atheists from his proposals, on the grounds that they were enemies to the English state.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#43. Gods damn you, LOcke,'she whispered. The corners of her eyes glistened.
'Twice now? Look, uh, if I said the wrong thing
'
'No,' she said, wiping at her eyes, trying but failing to do so nonchalantly. 'No, the trouble is you said the right thing.

Scott Lynch

#44. Feeling human again?" said Locke.
"this brew could make a dead eunuch piss lightnign" said Jean.

Scott Lynch

#45. I'm sorry," muttered Locke. "I was so keen to come to Tal fucking Verrar." "It's not your fault. We were both eager to hop in bed with the wench; it's just shit luck she turned out to have the clap.

Scott Lynch

#46. There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

Alex Tabarrok

#47. Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Samuel Johnson

#48. The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

William Osler

#49. I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it.
'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.

Scott Lynch

#50. The freedom to entertain and express opinions, however offensive to others, has been regarded since Locke as the sine qua non of a free society. This

Roger Scruton

#51. From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Robert Trout

#52. When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.

Scott Lynch

#53. In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

Scott Lynch

#54. Yes - and had we one, you'd probably never see us at all." Mrs. Locke adds jokingly.
Emily pulls ecstatically against my clothing, a new found joy in her eyes.
"Samuel! We must find a piano for the Lockes! It is the very least we can do!

Nathan Reese Maher

#55. Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Lord Byron

#56. Locke sighed.
'So this is winning,' he said.
'It is,' replied Jean.
'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#57. If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.

Scott Lynch

#58. No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#59. One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

Jim Webb

#60. The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games - " " - is Locke Lamora -

Scott Lynch

#61. Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Scott Lynch

#62. Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

Scott Lynch

#63. Well then," said Locke. "Now that we've all realized precisely how tough we'll never be, let's stand on what we have.

Scott Lynch

#64. Twenty's good and proper. While Locke gestured for Calo and Galdo to help him set

Scott Lynch

#65. The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Robert Trout

#66. What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean.
"He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.

Scott Lynch

#67. Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes.

Scott Lynch

#68. UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

Ambrose Bierce

#69. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

Scott Lynch

#71. I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#72. If you're with me, I think I could take on anything. - Ace Locke

Ella Frank

#73. You write?" "Why, all the time," said Locke, "except of course when I'm wrong.

Scott Lynch

#74. Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora.

Scott Lynch

#75. Why do you assume it's something you've done, and something you can undo at will? I'm not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did

Scott Lynch

#76. The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.

Novalis

#77. Hey," said Locke, scratching his stubble absently with his quill. "That sounds suspiciously like wisdom, damn your eyes. Why must you always flounce about being wiser than me?" "Doesn't require much conscious effort.

Scott Lynch

#78. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.

Plato

#79. If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them."
"If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo.
"And me," said Conte
"Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.

Scott Lynch

#80. I'm not gong to kill you, said Locke
I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.

Scott Lynch

#81. My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Franz Liszt

#82. What kind of knife is this?" Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. "It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.

Scott Lynch

#83. Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

Scott Lynch

#84. I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."
"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that's the definition of 'family' right there.

Scott Lynch

#85. What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#86. But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

Daniel Bell

#87. The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#88. The fact Locke didn't die instantly may be taken as proof that a human male can survive having every last warm drop of blood within his body rush instantly to the vicinity of his cheeks.

Scott Lynch

#89. He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Charles Darwin

#90. When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.

George Herbert

#91. Tonight is delicate business," said Drakasha. "Misstepping in Port Prodigal after midnight is like pissing on an angry snake. I need - " "Ahem," said Locke. "Originally, we're from Camorr." "Be on the boat in five minutes," said Drakasha.

Scott Lynch

#92. Master Thorn... you have a curiously tender heart, for a thief of your appetites."
"I'm a sworn brother of the Nameless Thirteenth, the Crooked Warden, the Benefactor," said Locke. "I'm a priest.

Scott Lynch

#93. Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.

Scott Lynch

#94. The merit of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency ... He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

#95. Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Thomas Jefferson

#96. I wondered whether you and Mr. Locke had any recollection about the past.
I see now that we all suffer the same.

Nathan Reese Maher

#97. She is my reprieve. My air. Spencer Locke is the one slice of happy I have in this shit pie I call life.

L.B. Simmons

#98. I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.

Scott Lynch

#99. The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

#100. I wouldn't call it looming, madam. Some of us simply aren't built for looming, said Locke.

Scott Lynch