The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
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George Berkeley
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About George Berkeley
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 its pioneers. He was among the most cited philosophers of 18th-century Europe, and his works deeply…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George BerkeleyThat neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.