Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto… — 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… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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 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
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to… — 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
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
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
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — 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