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Few men think; yet all have opinions.
— George Berkeley
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
All men have opinions, but few think.
— George Berkeley
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.
— George Berkeley
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
— George Berkeley
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
— George Berkeley
Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.
— George Berkeley
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
— George Berkeley
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
— George Berkeley
To be is to be perceived
— 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
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
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
— George Berkeley
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,each his own interest. — George Berkeley
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding ...
— George Berkeley
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
The only things we perceive are our perceptions.
— George Berkeley
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
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
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
— George Berkeley
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
— George Berkeley
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
— George Berkeley
I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.
— George Berkeley
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
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Bishop Berkeley
Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
— George Berkeley
...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.
— George Berkeley
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
— George Berkeley
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
— George Berkeley
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
