Famous Quotes by George Berkeley

“We have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see.”

To be is to be perceived.

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

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist without any apparent means of their existence being perceived.

All things are made of the same stuff, which is perception and mind.

In short, I am content to affirm that as the mind is affected by the ideas it perceives, so is the reality of those ideas only within the mind.

Nothing seems of a piece, but all things float in the air, and in time they vanish and go out.

Our judgments concerning things without are formed in the mind alone, and therefore are all rather suppositions than real knowledge.

We see things in perspective because we wish to see them that way, as they satisfy our minds and eyes.

All our sensations, notions, and passions are all ideas in the mind.

He who says there is no such thing as an external world says only that he has no reason to think it exists without the mind.

If we will have our senses consulted, they will reply, 'Not that we perceive an existence distinct from mind.'

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

That which is truly real is that which we can conceive as real, and is not an illusion or appearance.

Nature is a system of systems in which the ideas within us correspond to those outside us.

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

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

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

A spirit is not the object of sense, nor is it subject to laws of motion.

We must reason our way to knowledge; our senses give us only a little that reason can later refine.