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I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre. -- George Berkeley
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All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things. -- George Berkeley
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I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel. -- George Berkeley
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. -- George Berkeley
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Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits. -- George Berkeley
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Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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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
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? -- George Berkeley
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[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
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Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices. -- George Berkeley
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. -- George Berkeley
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All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous. -- George Berkeley
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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. -- George Berkeley
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. -- George Berkeley
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. -- George Berkeley
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Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn the world into a dungeon, and keep mankind for ever in chains and darkness. -- George Berkeley
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Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why. -- George Berkeley
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Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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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
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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 alone is truly free. -- George Berkeley
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The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do? -- George Berkeley
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But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding ... -- George Berkeley
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Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. -- George Berkeley
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The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,
each his own interest. -- George Berkeley
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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
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All men have opinions, but few think. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. -- George Berkeley
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A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. -- George Berkeley
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I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it. -- George Berkeley
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The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds. -- George Berkeley
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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
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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
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Few men think; yet all have opinions. -- George Berkeley
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Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind? -- George Berkeley
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To be is to be perceived -- George Berkeley
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The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. -- George Berkeley
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The only things we perceive are our perceptions. -- George Berkeley
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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. -- George Berkeley
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. -- George Berkeley
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body. -- George Berkeley
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How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas? -- George Berkeley
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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
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ... ? -- 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 sense. -- George Berkeley
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...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar. -- George Berkeley
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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
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I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound. -- George Berkeley