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The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
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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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[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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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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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
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