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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.
George Berkeley
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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
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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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But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
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Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
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There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme religion to fanaticism free-thinking to atheism liberty to rebellion.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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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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The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.
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Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
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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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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
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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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I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
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Westward the course of empire takes its way The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
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To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.
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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.
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Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
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