George Berkeley Quotes About Soul

• Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

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  George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1897). “The works of George Berkeley, D.D., bishop of Cloyne”

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• Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

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  George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

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  George Berkeley (1901). “The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”

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• All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.

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  George Berkeley (1871). “The applied philosophical works”, p.16

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• This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

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  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.17, 谷月社

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