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"16 George Berkeley Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 March 1685. Died: 14 January 1753 | Philosopher |

Few men think; yet all have opinions.

Few men Think Opinions
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Tress falls Forest Hear Sound
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Choir Heaven Furniture Word
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth Cry Game
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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Thing Hell Punishment Absurd
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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public

Impossible Man Friends
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The world Board Square
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...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

We ought Learned Vulgar
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A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
Ray Imagination Wisdom
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God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

God Transcendent Unlimited perfections
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Admit Extraordinary Creation World
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

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

So long Thoughts Divested Words
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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.

Own Dependency Ideas Reason
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Religion Centre Cement Members
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Such thing Honest man
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George Berkeley Quotes & Sayings