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What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

George Berkeley

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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
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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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God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.
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For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
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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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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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