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George Berkeley Quotes: "To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?



George Berkeley Quotes: "Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.




George Berkeley Quotes: "It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public."

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Few men think, yet all will have opinions."

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.




George Berkeley Quotes: "The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square."

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.



George Berkeley Quotes: "I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.



George Berkeley Quotes: "That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.




George Berkeley Quotes: "So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.



George Berkeley Quotes: "A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries."

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato."

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.



George Berkeley Quotes: "God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits."

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body."

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.




George Berkeley Quotes: "The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry."

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout."

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.



George Berkeley Quotes: "All men have opinions, but few think."

All men have opinions, but few think.



George Berkeley Quotes: "HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.



George Berkeley Quotes: "That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.



George Berkeley Quotes: "A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.



George Berkeley Quotes: "There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion."

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.



George Berkeley Quotes: "To be is to be perceived"

To be is to be perceived



George Berkeley Quotes: "Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.



George Berkeley Quotes: "[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic."

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old."

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.



George Berkeley Quotes: "In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now."

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.



George Berkeley Quotes: "If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.



George Berkeley Quotes: "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."

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.



George Berkeley Quotes: "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.



George Berkeley Quotes: "To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion."

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.



George Berkeley Quotes: "What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!"

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!



George Berkeley Quotes: "From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.



George Berkeley Quotes: "The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free."

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?"

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?



George Berkeley Quotes: "[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate."

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.



George Berkeley Quotes: "The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest."

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last."

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.



George Berkeley Quotes: "For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem."

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.



George Berkeley Quotes: "To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them."

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?"

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?



George Berkeley Quotes: "The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it."

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.



George Berkeley Quotes: "The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature."

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.



George Berkeley Quotes: "I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel."

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.



George Berkeley Quotes: "But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding."

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.



George Berkeley Quotes: "Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?"

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?



George Berkeley Quotes: "Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity."

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.