George Berkeley Quotes on Mind
George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop best known for his theory of immaterialism, sometimes called subjective idealism. This page collects quotes attributed to George Berkeley on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to George Berkeley:
“To be is to be perceived.”
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Attributed to George Berkeley:
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”
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Attributed to George Berkeley:
“All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind.”
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Attributed to George Berkeley:
“It is impossible that I should conceive in my thoughts any sensible thing or object distinct from the sensation or perception of it.”
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Attributed to George Berkeley:
“Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, I am lost.”