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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

George Berkeley
Truth, Science, Games
'Siris' (1744) para. 368

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley
Truth, Lying, Men
George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

George Berkeley
God, Truth, Lying
George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.85, Sheba Blake Publishing

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley
Truth, Abuse, Principles
George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser (1871). “Philosophical works”, p.181

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