"Every knave is a thorough knave, and a……" — George Berkeley
"Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout."
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36 Quotes by George Berkeley
George Berkeley has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common…
- All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
- Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
- I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
- He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
- What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
- To be is to be perceived
- To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one…
- So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I…
- Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and…
- Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker…
- If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something…
More Every Knave Quotes
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- By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann