Quotes from berkeley george iii

Every man, by consulting his own heart, may easily know whether he is or is not a patriot. But it is not so easy for the by-standers.

What the bad man most fears is certain to come to him--that is death. It is just as certain to the good man, but to him it is welcome.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

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

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

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

I have always observed, that a rake who is a minute philosopher, when grown old, becomes a sharper in business.

To suppose sense in the world would be gross and unwarranted. But locomotive faculties are evident in all its parts.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Can the mind of a philosopher rise to a more just and magnificent, and at the same time a more amiable idea of the Deity than is here set forth in the strongest images and most emphatical language? And yet this is the language of shepherds and fishermen.

There are two parts in our nature, the baser, which consists of our senses and passions, and the more noble and rational, which is properly the human part, the other being common to us with brutes.

It is impossible to understand the weakness of a system without understanding its strength.

I am not for imposing any sense on your words: you are at liberty to explain them as you please. Only, I beseech you, make me understand something by them.