George Berkeley

"The mind is by nature active, not passive"

"Language is the image of the mind"

"He who would seriously set upon the pursuit of truth must begin by parting with prejudice"

"Knowledge and wonder are the first and last emotions of philosophy"

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination"

"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it"

"True comfort is taken out of the knowledge of God"

"The good we do is always mixed with evil and very little of it"

"It is the part of prudence to manage the misery we cannot avoid"

"Light and colours serve us as signs by which we learn and become acquainted with things useful and hurtful to our bodies"

"All the appearances of nature all objects of sense are ideas even beauty and deformity"

"Human science begins with observation, but it must end with philosophy"

"The mind cannot be seen except through its works"

"We do not therefore suppose any manner of necessity, logical or metaphysical, in the connexion between our ideas and those of God"

"I do not argue against changing established laws and customs, until we see the inconveniences of them"

"Whatsoever we perceive is some affection or alteration of our mind"

"Nothing is so apt to prevent us from following good counsel as pride"

"The table I write on I say exists, that is I see and feel it"

"I shall endeavour to go through with this enquiry concerning the principles of human knowledge in a way as unambiguous as I am able"

"Our happiness depends entirely on our disposition"

"The best and most perfect part of knowledge is knowing God"

"We should make the most of the present moment"

"Infinite divisibility cannot exist if each part is unextended"

"No extended being can exist without parts"

"The desire of knowledge is implanted in our minds by nature"

"Solitude is the parent of anxiety"

"The connection between ideas and words is arbitrary"

"Most of the jargon used by philosophers is meaningless"

"Sensible things are those only which are perceived by sense"

"If we had no God we should be obliged to imagine one"