George Berkeley Quotes
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
Berkeley, George. Maxims Concerning Patriotism. 1750, maxim 32.
Politicians with power and authority are particular targets for flatterers as well as critics—the latter in a democracy.
George Berkeley – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the minds and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.
