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

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Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

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