George Berkeley
An empiricist who famously argued for subjective idealism, stating 'Esse est percipi' ('To be is to be perceived').
Quotes by George Berkeley
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
The table I see before me is not the same as the table others see.
You will not say that fire heats, or that the fire with which you warm your hand, is not cold.
The very existence of ideas constitutes the soul.
We are chained to a body, but the mind is free.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few.
Few men think; yet all will have opinions.
No man ever wished to be inconsistent.
The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me.
God is the supreme good.
Tar-water is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.
The world is not a machine but a divine organism.
Whatever power I have over you is because you give it to me.
Sensible objects are those only which are perceived by sense.
The objects of sense are particular and finite.
It is on the bended knees that man is closest to God.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Men often mistake themselves, seldom others.
The most positive and authentic testimony of the senses is subject to error.
Distance, I say, is a line, or a length, apprehended by the help of sight.