Irish - Philosopher | March 12, 1685 - January 14, 1753
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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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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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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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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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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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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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
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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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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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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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