George BerkeleyThinkers

Being is to be perceived.

Education 1s 2eal object is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Empiricism is the idea that 'to be is to be perceived.' 'What would a table 'be' if it were not seen, heard, touched, or even tasted or smelt''.

Empiricism is the reason why we should think that matter does not exist

Existence is the result of perception. As berkeley famously puts it: 'To exist is to be perceived (esse est percipi).

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Materialism is wrongheaded because we know of no such thing as matter. If all our knowledge is derived from sensation, then all our knowledge of anything is merely our sensations of it, and the ideas derived from these sensations.

Materialism is wrong. A hammer's reality for you is not in its materiality, but in the sensations that come from your thumb. If you had no senses, the hammer would not exist for you at all; it might strike your dead thumb forever and yet win from you not the slightest attention.

Matter is a mental condition; and the Only reality that we know directly is mind.

Metaphor is a thing a philosopher should abstain from using.

A Thing is merely a bundle of perceptions— i.e., classified and interpreted sensations.