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• Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

  George Berkeley

  Knavery, Knaves, Thorough

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

  George Berkeley

  God, Truth, Lying

  George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.85, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Writing, Fighting, Liberty

  George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley: Philosophical works”, p.37

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• Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Wise, Fashion

  "A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority: Occasioned by the Enormous License, and Irreligion of the Times". Book by George Berkeley, 1738.

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• Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

  George Berkeley

  Ideas, Mind

  1713 Three Dialogues between Hylas And Philonous, first dialogue.

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Views, Common Sense

  George Berkeley (1949). “Works”

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• Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

  George Berkeley

  God, Stars, Fall

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.134, 谷月社

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• [Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

  George Berkeley

  Nastiness, Christianity, Cynicism

  George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Passion, Ideas, Imagination

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.17, 谷月社

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• The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

  George Berkeley

  Real, Mind, Existence

  George Berkeley (2008). “Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Ideas, Perception

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.69

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• In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Body, Might

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.22, 谷月社

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophy, Math, Thinking

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

  George Berkeley

  Substance, Deny, Should

  George Berkeley, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2007). “Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous”, p.95, Lulu.com

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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

  Ocean, Doubt, Labyrinth

  George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley”, p.356

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• A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.

  George Berkeley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  George Berkeley (1752). “Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers”, p.112

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• Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

  George Berkeley

  Political, Religion, Body

  George Berkeley (1752). “A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects”, p.67

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• Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

  George Berkeley

  Faults, Poor, Stills

  1737 The Querist, pt.3.

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Doubt, Might, Existence

  George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke (2008). “Berkeley: Philosophical Writings”, p.211, Cambridge University Press

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• I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?

  George Berkeley

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.527

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• 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

  Eye, Long, Glimpse

  George Berkeley (1871). “Life and letters”, p.297

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Sad, Thinking, Mind

  George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser (1732). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”, p.142

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Ideas, May

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.203

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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.

  George Berkeley

  Keys, Secret, Helping

  George Berkeley (2016). “The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Berkeley

  Independence, Satisfaction, Masters

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