George Berkeley citáty

George Berkeley [ˈbɑrkli] byl irský filosof a teolog, od roku 1734 anglikánský biskup z Cloyne. Psal v angličtině a latině. Je znám svým výrokem Esse est percipi , jenž stojí u zrodu imaterialismu, resp. subjektivního idealismu. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. březen 1685 – 14. leden 1753
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George Berkeley nejznámější citáty

„Být znamená, být vnímán.“
Esse est percipi.

„Říše se šíří na západ.“

Zdroj: [Nevis, A., Commager, Steele, 2008, Dějiny USA, Amilyn, Klatovy, 1, 107, 80-901494-4-8]

„Pravděpodobnost je velkým vodítkem života.“

Zdroj: [Nicholl, Charles, 2006, Leonardo da Vinci - Vzlety mysli, BB art, 1, 45, 80-7341-955-6]

George Berkeley: Citáty anglicky

“Few men think; yet all have opinions.”

George Berkeley kniha Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Philonous to Hylas. The Second Dialogue. This appears in a passage first added in the third edition, (1734)
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)

“[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.”

George Berkeley kniha Siris

Paragraph 217. Compare: "Cups / That cheer but not inebriate", William Cowper, The Task, book iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Siris (1744)

“Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?”

George Berkeley kniha Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Philonous to Hylas.
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)

“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).

“Since therefore, as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that external bodies are absolutely incapable of any degree of heat whatsoever?”

George Berkeley kniha Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Philonous to Hylas. Hylas replies with, "So it seems".
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)

“That we have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.”

George Berkeley kniha A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)

“Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.”

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America (written in 1726), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Westward the star of empire takes its way", Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States; "What worlds in the yet unformed Occident / May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?", Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163.
According to W. Cleon Skousen, the first four empires are the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the (Western, Eastern, and Holy) Roman Empire (Gospel Diamond Dust, Volume Two, Verity Publishing, 1998).

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