George Berkeley

“Westward the course of empire takes its way.”

“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”

“Few men think, yet all have their opinions.”

“For my own part, I am determined not to be betrayed by words.”

“He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.”

“Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them.”

“I am not for imposing any sense on your words; you are at liberty to explain them as you please. Only, I beseech you, make me understand something by them.”

“To be is to be perceived.”

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.”

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

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

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.”

“The striving of the mind is to beget understanding.”