Quote of George Berkeley - To be is to be perceived...
Biography - George Berkeley:
Irish philosopher.
Born: 1685 - Died: 1753
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: Ireland
Born: 1685 - Died: 1753
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: Ireland
To be is to be perceived or to perceive.
Translation
(French, German, Latin)
Esse est percipi aut percipere.
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Quotes for "to be" or about being:
Quotes for: perception
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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