For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
George BerkeleyThat neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George BerkeleyThe eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George BerkeleyThat the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.
George Berkeley