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> [I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/i-am-apt-to-think-if-we-knew-what-it-was-to-be-an-angel-for-one-hour/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

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## More by George Berkeley

> [For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/for-my-own-private-satisfaction-i-had-rather-be-master-of-my-own-time/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/to-be-a-good-patriot-a-man-must-consider-his-countrymen-as-god-s/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [ \[Christianity\] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/christianity-neither-enjoins-the-nastiness-of-the-cynic-nor-the/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-method-of-fluxions-is-the-general-key-by-help-whereof-the-modern/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/upon-the-whole-i-am-inclined-to-think-that-the-far-greater-part-if/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/certainly-he-who-can-digest-a-second-or-third-fluxion-need-not/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/truth-is-the-cry-of-all-but-the-game-of-few/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/tar-water-is-of-a-nature-so-mild-and-benign-and-proportioned-to-the/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-same-principles-which-at-first-view-lead-to-skepticism-pursued-to/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/i-might-as-well-doubt-of-my-own-being-as-of-the-being-of-those-things/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/make-a-point-never-go-clear-it-is-great-odds-that-a-man-whose-habits/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/atheism-that-bugbear-of-women-and-fools-is-the-very-top-and/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [“...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/we-ought-to-think-with-the-learned-and-speak-with-the-vulgar/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [ The most ingenious men are now agreed, that \[universities\] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-most-ingenious-men-are-now-agreed-that-universities-are-only/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

> [But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/but-the-velocities-of-the-velocities-the-second-third-fourth-and/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

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