Empiricism Quotes: 19 Sourced Quotations, Explained

Bacon5 quotations

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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Four kinds of idols beset the human mind.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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The only hope lies in a true induction.

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George Berkeley1 quotations

Their being is to be perceived; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds which perceive them.

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Hume7 quotations

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

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After a repetition of similar instances, the mind is carried by habit, upon the appearance of one event, to expect its usual attendant... This connexion, therefore, which we feel in the mind, is the impression from which we form the idea of power or necessary connexion.

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All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, it is impossible for us to think of anything which we have not antecedently felt.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Essays, "Of the Standard of Taste"

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For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other... I never can catch myself at any time without a perception.

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Morality is more properly felt than judg'd of.

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Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.

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Locke6 quotations

As far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person.

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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

Second Treatise of Government, §6

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Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: how comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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Of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.

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The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided ... he hath mixed his labour with, and thereby makes it his property.

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The mind, if it will proceed rationally, ought to examine all the grounds of probability ... and upon a due balancing the whole, reject or receive it, with a more or less firm assent, proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.

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