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
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of… — 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
If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at… — 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
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
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
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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