George Berkeley Quotes
Top 33 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Berkeley
George Berkeley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
[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.
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.
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding ...
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
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 a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
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.
Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.