Irish philosopher (1685-1753)
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing--each his own interest.
GEORGE BERKELEY
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical
Make a point never so 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.
GEORGE BERKELEY
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.
GEORGE BERKELEY
The Works of George Berkeley
A patriot will admit there may be honest men, and that honest men may differ.
GEORGE BERKELEY
"Maxims Concerning Patriotism", Works
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
Principles, dialogues, and philosophical correspondence
Every knave is a thorough knave.
GEORGE BERKELEY
"Maxims Concerning Patriotism", Works
A man whose passion for money runs high bids fair for being no patriot. And he likewise whose appetite is keen for power.
GEORGE BERKELEY
"Maxims Concerning Patriotism", Works
This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.
GEORGE BERKELEY
George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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
A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
We have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
GEORGE BERKELEY
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Take away the signs from Arithmetic and Algebra, and pray what remains?
GEORGE BERKELEY
Philosophical Commentaries
In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it.
GEORGE BERKELEY
De Motu
There are two parts in our nature, the baser, which consists of our senses and passions, and the more noble and rational, which is properly the human part, the other being common to us with brutes.
GEORGE BERKELEY
The Works of George Berkeley
He that always blames, or always praises, is no patriot.
GEORGE BERKELEY
"Maxims Concerning Patriotism", Works
And doth not this observation hold in the civil as well as natural world? Doth not power produce license, and license power? Do not whigs make tories, and tories whigs? Bigots make atheists, and atheists bigots?
GEORGE BERKELEY
Alciphron; or, The Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues
We know well what we lose by death, but we know not what we gain.
GEORGE BERKELEY
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.
GEORGE BERKELEY
The Works of George Berkeley
A patriot will esteem no man for being of his party.
GEORGE BERKELEY
"Maxims Concerning Patriotism", Works
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.
GEORGE BERKELEY
A New Theory of Vision and Other Select Philosophical Writings
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.
GEORGE BERKELEY
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America