"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."

Earth, Heaven, Mind, Word

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"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

Earth, Opinion, Trouble

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Earth, Death, Life, Learning

"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

Earth, Unity, Peace, Humanity

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Minority

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Majority, Minority

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Earth, Forget, Light

"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian Author

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Explore more quotes by George Berkeley

"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."

Fight

"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

Imagination

"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."

Creativity

"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."

Animals

"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."

Truth

"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

Man

"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."

Thought

"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."

Self-Awareness

"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."

Reflection

"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

God