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> [The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-love-of-truth-virtue-and-the-happiness-of-mankind-are-specious/)

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## More by George Berkeley

> [For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/for-my-own-private-satisfaction-i-had-rather-be-master-of-my-own-time/)

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> [To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/to-be-a-good-patriot-a-man-must-consider-his-countrymen-as-god-s/)

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> [ \[Christianity\] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/christianity-neither-enjoins-the-nastiness-of-the-cynic-nor-the/)

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> [The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-method-of-fluxions-is-the-general-key-by-help-whereof-the-modern/)

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> [Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/upon-the-whole-i-am-inclined-to-think-that-the-far-greater-part-if/)

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> [Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/certainly-he-who-can-digest-a-second-or-third-fluxion-need-not/)

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> [Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/truth-is-the-cry-of-all-but-the-game-of-few/)

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> [ \[Tar water\] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/tar-water-is-of-a-nature-so-mild-and-benign-and-proportioned-to-the/)

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> [The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-same-principles-which-at-first-view-lead-to-skepticism-pursued-to/)

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> [I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/i-might-as-well-doubt-of-my-own-being-as-of-the-being-of-those-things/)

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> [Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/make-a-point-never-go-clear-it-is-great-odds-that-a-man-whose-habits/)

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> [Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/atheism-that-bugbear-of-women-and-fools-is-the-very-top-and/)

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> [“...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/we-ought-to-think-with-the-learned-and-speak-with-the-vulgar/)

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> [ The most ingenious men are now agreed, that \[universities\] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-most-ingenious-men-are-now-agreed-that-universities-are-only/)

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> [But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/but-the-velocities-of-the-velocities-the-second-third-fourth-and/)

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