George Berkeley

"George Berkeley" at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"Berkeley's Life and Works"

"Solicitation and effort or conation belong properly to animate beings alone. When they are attributed to other things, they must be taken in a metaphorical sense; but a philosopher should abstain from…"

"Seeing therefore they are both immediately perceived at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is both the intense he…"

"We indeed, who are beings of finite powers, are forced to make use of instruments. And the use of an instrument sheweth the agent to be limited by rules of another’s prescription, and that he cannot o…"

"That there is no such thing as what philosophers call material substance, I am seriously persuaded: but if I were made to see any thing absurd or skeptical in this, I should then have the same reason …"

"Abstract terms should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."

"George Berkeley article by Daniel E. Flage in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"