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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
Anglican Priest
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Bishop George Berkeley
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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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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?
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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.
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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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Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
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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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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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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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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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Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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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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Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
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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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