joebidenfanclub:

joebidenfanclub:

just remembered that “it is what it is” is a john locke quote………..y’all mind if i scream

“Although, nowadays IT IS WHAT IT IS seems to be looked upon mostly as a trivial and annoying catchword / cliché, it was not always so. Its earliest use, in fact, was in serious philosophical and religious writings dating back to the 17th century. John Locke, appears to have been the most famous early user, when he employed ‘it is what it is’ to define the concept of ‘essence’:

“Essence may be taken for the being of any thing, whereby it is what it is.”…“That everything has a real constitution, whereby it is what it is, and on which its sensible qualities depend, is past doubt.”…“He knows that ‘it is what it is’ and not another…” –An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 

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