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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
Anglican Priest
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Philosopher Of Science
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The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
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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.
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Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
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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?
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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.
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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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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