The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of visionClarendon Press, 1901 |
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الصفحة 3 - ALCIPHRON OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER IN SEVEN DIALOGUES CONTAINING AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE CALLED FREE-THINKERS ' They have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.'—JER. ii. 13
الصفحة 8 - religion, at a time when, according to Bishop Butler, it had come ' to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious 1 .
الصفحة 166 - The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible because it can never imply a contradiction. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise.
الصفحة 383 - to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body.
الصفحة 155 - To be bribed only or terrified into an honest practice bespeaks little of real honesty or worth. If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.
الصفحة 152 - understood the love and desire of virtuous enjoyment, or of the very practice and exercise of virtue in another life ; an expectation or hope of this kind is so far from being derogatory from virtue that it is an evidence of our loving it the more sincerely, and for its own sake.
الصفحة 37 - and go no further, but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
الصفحة 21 - 1. I have no objection against calling the Ideas in the mind of God archetypes of ours. But I object against those archetypes by philosophers supposed to be real things, and to have an absolute rational existence, distinct from their being perceived by any mind whatsoever ; it being the opinion of all materialists