George Berkeley Quotes

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Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.

George Berkeley
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
These are sciences purely Verbal, & entirely useless but for Practise in Societys of Men. No speculative knowledge, no comparison of Ideas in them.

George Berkeley
Our youth we can have but today,
We may always find time to grow old.

George Berkeley
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

George Berkeley
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

George Berkeley
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

George Berkeley
Disputes are not to be decided by the weight of authority, but by the force of reason.

George Berkeley
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