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George Berkeley (Philosopher)

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 war
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
— George Berkeley cry
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 art
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 men
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
— George Berkeley men
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 mind
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 truth
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 mind
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Berkeley self
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 words
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
— George Berkeley passion
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 world
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
— George Berkeley
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
— George Berkeley man
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 man
[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 war
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.
— George Berkeley mind
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 men

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