Common Quotes by George Berkeley

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

— George Berkeley

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

— George Berkeley

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

— George Berkeley

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers,…

— George Berkeley

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

— George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

— George Berkeley

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but…

— George Berkeley

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

— George Berkeley

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

— George Berkeley

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary…

— George Berkeley

Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which…

— George Berkeley