Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind? — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image