George Berkeley Quotes

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• Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm,…
• Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
• Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest…
• Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.
• The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the…
• A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
• Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
• [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not…
• Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and…
• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding...
• And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely…
• Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is…
• Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
• To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
• If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new…

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