George Berkeley

"Nothing can exist without a cause"

"The divine mind is infinite and eternal"

"We find nothing more natural than to believe in the existence of God"

"The soul is the principle of life and motion"

"True knowledge is the knowledge of God"

"The path to wisdom is paved with questions"

"We must distinguish between appearance and reality"

"The mind that understands is the mind that creates"

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

"Existence is perception; we know things only as they appear to our minds."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth have not any subsistence without a mind."

"What is mind but a collection of perceptions?"

"The only thing we can truly know is what we perceive through our senses."

"To be is to be perceived; nothing exists independent of perception."

"I am not what I seem, but what I perceive myself to be."

"Doubt is the gateway to deeper understanding."

"We mistake the map for the territory, the idea for the thing itself."

"Happiness lies in the harmony between perception and reality."

"The world exists not outside the mind, but within it."

"Freedom consists in the mind's liberation from false certainties."

"Truth is not discovered but constructed through continuous perception."

"What we call matter is merely a collection of sensible qualities."

"The greatest obstacles to knowledge are not ignorance but false certainties."

"Beauty exists only insofar as it is perceived by a conscious mind."

"Time itself is but a series of perceptions strung together."

"Strength comes from accepting the limitations of our perception."

"The universe is God's thought made manifest in perception."

"Patience teaches us that meaning unfolds gradually through perception."

"We are enslaved by our assumptions about the nature of reality."

"Imagination is not deception but the foundation of all understanding."