"The eye by long use comes to see……" — George Berkeley
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
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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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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
— Horace
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want…
— Samuel Johnson
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
— William Blake
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their…
— Seneca the Younger
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The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people…
— Cheryl Rainfield
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It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head…
— Jean Hegland
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I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea
— George MacDonald
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n…
— Alexander Pope
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I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit…
— Sylvia Plath
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BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
— Milan Kundera
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