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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

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Topic

Honesty Personal integrity

Author

George Berkeley

Source

Maxims Concerning Patriotism

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Citation

Berkeley, George. "Maxims Concerning Patriotism." A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752.

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... Their being is to be perceived or known.

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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Topic

The mind

Author

George Berkeley

Source

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1710 1710s 18th century

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Original Citation

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 6.

What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?

George Berkeley

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Topic

Perception Nature of reality

Author

George Berkeley

Source

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1710 1710s 18th century

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Original Citation

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 4.