QUOTES
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-Those are a few quotes about Berkeley's thoughts of the other philosophes:
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''I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.''
''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.''
''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.''
''Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.''
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Those are the main quotes that George Berkley has cited throughout his work:
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-the first quotes support the statement of immaterialism and idealism:
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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.''
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''That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.''
''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.''
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''That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
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“The only things we perceive are our perceptions.”
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IMPORTANT QUOTES
George Berkeley has used direct and powerful quotes to express his thinking and knowledge, supporting his statements and tesis of immaterialism and idealism. He also contemplated materialist philosophes thinking, such as John Locke, by saying also that his thoughts are supported by God. His sentences are short, but very powerful and direct at the same time.
