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For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

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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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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Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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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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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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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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The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
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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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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
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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 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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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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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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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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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
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