Berkeley

Famous quotes containing the word berkeley:

    Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child.
    George Grainger: Dances like who?
    Annie: Pavaliver—the Russian dancer. Don’t be so ignorant.
    —Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

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

    What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)