George Berkeley Quotes
George Berkeley Quotes
- 1
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.
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- 2
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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- 3
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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- 4
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.
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- 5
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.
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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.
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- 7
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
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- 8
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.
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- 9
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.
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- 10
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
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- 11
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
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- 12
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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