Quotes by George Berkeley

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.
– 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
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
– George Berkeley
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
– George Berkeley
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
– 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
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
– 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