I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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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.George Berkeley
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
George Berkeley
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
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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.
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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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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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