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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

~George Berkeley

Topics: About Alone Fight Free Indeed Liberty Make May Others Outward Pretence Talk Truly Write

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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

~George Berkeley

Topics: Animals Had Man Most Rather Senseless Stupid Than Oyster

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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 a mind.

~George Berkeley

Topics: Any Bodies Choir Compose Earth Frame Furniture Heaven Mind Subsistence Those Which Without Word World

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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

~George Berkeley

Topics: Act Being Created Dependency Existence Find God Ideas Infer Mind My Own Myself Necessarily Own Reason Things

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The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

~George Berkeley

Topics: Darkest Discern Even Eye Glimpse Long May Obscure See Some Subject Truth Use

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Philosopher

Born: March 12th, 1685

Died: January 14th, 1753

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