The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom… — 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 in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down… — 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
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