John Locke Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Philosophical, Riches

  John Locke (1823). “The Works of John Locke”, p.59

• When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Crafts, Sacred

  John Locke (1728). “Two Treatises of Government: In the Former the False Principles & Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer & His Followers, are Detected & Overthrown; the Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent & End of Civil Government”, p.49

• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Expression, Suffering

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10

• False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Party, Dark

  "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke, (Book IV, Ch. 7), 1689.

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