Berkeley

Famous quotes containing the word berkeley:

“The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)