Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.
George BerkeleySo long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George BerkeleyThe same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley