John Locke Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

• Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Children, Pain

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

• The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Liberty, Foundation

• Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

  John Locke

  Mistake, Thinking, Common

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.309

• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  John Locke

  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

• If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

  John Locke

  Father, Son, Liberty

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.27

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