Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free… — 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