George Berkeley Quotes

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

The same principles which at first lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

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

Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind—that their being is to be perceived or known.

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 ourselves—that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.