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."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Entertainment, Liberty, Mind, Nothing, World)
"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Men, Common sense, First, Principles, Skepticism)
"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
(Related: Truth, Eye, May)
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
- George Berkeley
(Related: First)
"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
(Related: Thought, Hell, Man, Punishment)
"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Imagination, Ideas, Thoughts, Body, Mind, Will)
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Truth)
"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
(Related: Idea, Man, May)
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Knave, Man, May)
"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
(Related: Earth, Heaven, Mind, Word, World)
"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Animals, Man)
"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
(Related: Creation, World)
"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
(Related: Fight, Liberty, May, Talk)
"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
(Related: God, Ideas, Act, Being, Existence, Mind, Reason)