Berkeley, George

"The moral order of the universe is as real as the physical order."

"Happiness increases as we align our actions with our deepest convictions."

"The imagination is the birthplace of all innovation and creative achievement."

"A single clear idea is worth more than a thousand confused notions."

"The natural world demonstrates that order can arise from infinite complexity."

"Our capacity for wonder is the truest measure of our humanity."

"The mind's freedom is both its greatest gift and its most terrible burden."

"Understanding requires the courage to abandon comforting falsehoods."

"The universe reveals itself not through dominance but through patient attention."

"The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions make their appearance in continual succession."

"To be is to be perceived, and all things exist only in the mind of God."

"Physical objects are not in space, but space is in physical objects."

"We ought to think black of this world, except insofar as it is subservient to another."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Beauty consists in a certain harmony and proportion."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth have not the least glamour."

"It is a mistake to think the mind has ideas that do not come from sensation."

"Time is the succession of ideas in constant flux."

"Language is the instrument of science and language fully understood is the key to half the wit of mankind."

"The mind, spirit, and immaterial substance are one thing."

"Whatever power I may possess is limited and finite."

"The chief merit of language is clearness."

"God is known by effects, and the understanding of effects leads us to understanding cause."

"Nature itself is God's language written in the book of creation."

"Sensual pleasures are but shadows when compared to the divine."

"Matter is nothing but a vulgar error in the minds of men."

"All knowledge begins with observation and reflection upon observation."

"The passions do not belong to the body but to the soul."

"We cannot think of anything which we have not perceived."

"Truth is the correspondent of our ideas with the nature of things."