George Berkeley Quotes

Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)

George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

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[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.