George Berkeley Quotes about Math

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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

George Berkeley

Philosophy, Math, Thinking

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

George Berkeley

Math, Departed, May

George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3”, p.283