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Date: 1710, 1734
Bodies are "barely passive ideas in the mind", and the mind is "more distant and heterogenous from them, than light is from darkness"
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Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."
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Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)