Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

George Berkeley's Popular Quotes

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

- George Berkeley

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

- George Berkeley

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

- George Berkeley

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

- George Berkeley

To be is to be perceived

- George Berkeley

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?

- 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 …

- George Berkeley

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

- George Berkeley

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

- George Berkeley