George Berkeley - God Quotes

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Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

George Berkeley

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

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

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

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

George Berkeley