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George Berkeley, born on March 12, 1685, and died on January 12, 1753, was a renowned philosopher of the 18th century. He is best known for his idealist philosophy, advocating the view that existence is dependent on perception. His major works include 'Principles of Human Knowledge' and 'A New Theory of Vision'.

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Famous George Berkeley Quotes

“Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.”

Body Political Religion Politics Members Centre Cement

Book:A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects

Source: A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects

“Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.”

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Book:A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

“In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Reason Body Might Impossible

Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“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.”

World Mind Body Earth Heaven Furniture Choir Subsistence

Author:George Berkeley

“That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.”

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Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding