"We have first raised a dust and then…" — George Berkeley
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
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36 Quotes by George Berkeley
George Berkeley has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cannot See Quotes
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one of 377 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
— Joel Osteen
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see…
— Albert Einstein
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one…
— Wayne Dyer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised…
— Mark Twain
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