"A mind at liberty to reflect on its……" — George Berkeley
"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."
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36 Quotes by George Berkeley
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common…
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
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Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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To be is to be perceived
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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one…
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I…
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Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and…
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker…
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something…
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