94 Quotes by George Berkeley

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

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.

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

All men have opinions, but few think.

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