George Berkeley
An empiricist who famously argued for subjective idealism, stating 'Esse est percipi' ('To be is to be perceived').
Quotes by George Berkeley
The true object of sense is the immediate object of perception.
The ideas of sense are stronger, livelier, and more distinct than those of the imagination.
Whatever we perceive is an idea, and ideas can only exist in a mind.
The mind is a thinking, active principle.
The existence of God is so far from being an inference, that it is a direct perception.
We are not to think that the ideas of sense are useless, because they are not the originals of things, but only the copies.
The great use of the senses is to inform us of the existence of other minds.
The only things whose existence I deny are those things which philosophers call material substances.
The world is a machine, but it is a machine of God's making.
The proper object of sense is the immediate object of perception.
All our ideas are either ideas of sense or ideas of imagination.
The existence of a sensible object consists in its being perceived.
The only things that exist are minds and their ideas.
The world is a collection of ideas, and these ideas are produced by God.
The true end of philosophy is to discover the nature of things, and to apply that knowledge to the improvement of human life.
He who says there is no God, says that there is no cause of the existence of the world.
The greatest part of mankind are more governed by custom than by reason.
It is not for us to prescribe to God how he shall govern the world.
Esse est percipi.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind.