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1. "The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense." ~ George Berkeley
2. "Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few." ~ George Berkeley
3. "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
4. "From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God." ~ George Berkeley
5. "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." ~ George Berkeley
6. "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." ~ George Berkeley
7. "The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it." ~ George Berkeley
8. "I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals." ~ George Berkeley
9. "A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself." ~ George Berkeley
10. "He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave." ~ George Berkeley
11. "So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken." ~ George Berkeley
12. "That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man." ~ George Berkeley
13. "That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow." ~ George Berkeley
14. "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

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
Author: Christian Lous Lange

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