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Philosophical literature2 quotes
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... Their being is to be perceived or known. — George Berkeley · 1710What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? — George Berkeley · 1710Political literature1 quote
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley · 1750