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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:—How comes it to be furnished”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. I, §2 (Project Gutenberg #10615)
The opening of Locke's account of the origin of ideas in sensation and reflection.
Citation: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:—How comes it to be furnished" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. I, §2 (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
