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"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."
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George BerkeleyThat there is no such thing as what philosophers call material substan — George Berkeley
"That there is no such thing as what philosophers call material substance, I am seriously persuaded: but if I were made to see any thing absurd or skeptical in this, I should then have the same reason to renounce this, that I imagine I have now to reject the contrary opinion."
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George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came to be known as subjective idealism. He has also been called "the father of idealism" by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Berkeley played a leading role in the empiricism movement and was one of
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"That we have first raisd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see."
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"Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Times noblest offspring is the last."
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"In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it."
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"For no ones authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them."
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"Abstract terms (however useful they may be in argument) should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."
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