To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards… — 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
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — 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
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — 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
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the… — 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
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
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without… — 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
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is… — 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
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
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