George Berkeley

"The same principles which at first lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

"He who would attend to his business must neglect his studies."

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."

"Manifest absurdities and direct contradictions in the old hypothesis."

"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern."

"Few men think; yet all will have opinions."

"That the things I see are my own ideas, and that no unthinking being can exist without a perceiving being."

"A man may judge of his own actions, though not of his own character."

"The love of truth alone is a sufficient object to live for."

"Custom may lead us to mistake the violence of passion for the purity of affection."

"It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to his God."

"The mind, spirit, or soul is that simple undivided active being, as it is very well known."

"Nothing so much conduces to settling the imagination upon any subject as talking of it."

"All beauty is relative to the perceiver."

"In the making of friends every man is his own tailor; he makes himself according to his own pattern."

"It is one thing to perceive the beauty of a sunset; it is quite another to understand its cause."

"The human mind is naturally inclined to make that judgment which results from habit."

"That which exists in itself we may call substance; that which exists in thought may be called idea."

"Time is the soul of business."

"The doctrine of matter or corporeal substance has taken so deep a root in the minds of philosophers."

"Contentment gives a crown, though made of straws."

"The real essence of all corporeality must be a spirit."

"The more we know of nature, the more we should reverence her Creator."

"If we trace the beam of light through all the intermediate space, we shall find that it is capable of variations."

"It is not possible for colour to exist where nothing is extended."

"There is indeed something inexpressibly beautiful and mysterious in the eternal order of things."

"By the laws of nature, certain circumstances are supposed to precede others."

"He who would deserve well of posterity must sacrifice the pleasures of his own age."

"The mind which alone can give ideas being the seat of all reality."

"All the colouring of logic is drawn from words or language."