George Berkeley Quotes

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. - George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. - George Berkeley

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. - George Berkeley

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. - George Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. - 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

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

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

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. - George Berkeley

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