Frasi di George Berkeley

George Berkeley è stato un filosofo, teologo e vescovo anglicano irlandese, uno dei tre grandi empiristi britannici assieme a John Locke e David Hume. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Marzo 1685 – 14. Gennaio 1753
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George Berkeley Frasi e Citazioni

“La materia è un non ente.”

Origine: Citato in Focus n. 90, p. 162.

“[Su Montesarchio] […] borgo affascinante situato alla base di una grande roccia conica, in cima alla quale c’è un castello […].”

citato in È un covo di banditi. Gli abitanti? Che aria cattiva: Berkeley passò per Benevento e ne restò colpito... http://www.ilvaglio.it/archivio/11780/e-un-covo-di-banditi-gli-abitanti-hanno-laria-cattiva-berkeley-passo-per-benevento-e-ne-resto-colpito.html, Il Vaglio, 7 dicembre 2011

George Berkeley: Frasi in inglese

“Few men think; yet all have opinions.”

George Berkeley libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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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