"A ray of imagination or of wisdom may……" — George Berkeley
"A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries."
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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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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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