George Berkeley

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

— George Berkeley

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards…

— George Berkeley

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of…

— George Berkeley

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto…

— George Berkeley

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

— George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

— George Berkeley

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to…

— George Berkeley

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

— George Berkeley

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

— George Berkeley

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie…

— George Berkeley

Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum…

— George Berkeley

“...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar .”

— George Berkeley

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all…

— George Berkeley

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an…

— George Berkeley

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

— George Berkeley

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it,…

— George Berkeley

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment…

— George Berkeley

But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .]…

— George Berkeley

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

— George Berkeley

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not,…

— George Berkeley

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

— George Berkeley

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into…

— George Berkeley

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of…

— George Berkeley