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George Berkeley

Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop

1685–1753

3 quotes.

No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.
- Philosophy
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
Siris (1744), Paragraph 368
- Truth & Lies
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Age
- Youth

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