~ Bishop Berkeley Quotes ~

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Bishop Berkeley Quotes


An Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism".
George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory contends that individuals can only know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as "matter", and that ideas depend on perceiving minds for their very existence. This belief later became immortalized in the dictum, "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived").

Here are some famous quotes by Bishop Berkeley.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

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The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.