He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — 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
Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly… — 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
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
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share
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
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
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. — George Berkeley Copy Share
[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
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
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
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
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
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. — George Berkeley Copy Share
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding... — George Berkeley Copy Share
