George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - 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. ”

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ”

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ”

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ”

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ”

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. ”

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever. ”