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George Berkeley Quotes: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
         

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.


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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.

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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?



Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.



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

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



Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.



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 is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.



I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.



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.

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.



A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.



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





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