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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
- They are neither finite quantities, or quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities?on Newton's infinitesimalsThe Analyst (1734) sect. 35
- [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.Siris (1744) para. 217; see Cowper
- Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.Siris (1744) para. 368
- We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) introduction, sect. 3
- All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth—in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world—have not any subsistence without a mind.A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) pt. 1, sect. 6
- Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The first four acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.‘On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America’ (1752) st. 6.
