6 Quotes & Sayings By George Berkeley

George Berkeley was a British philosopher renowned for his contributions to the theory of perspective, the philosophy of language, and the ontological argument. Berkeley is best known for formulating a solution to the problem of motion. Berkeley is also notable for his advocacy of idealism in contrast with Thomas Hobbes's realism.

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HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. George Berkeley
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. George Berkeley
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. George Berkeley
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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
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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