George Berkley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"  also referred to as "subjective idealism" which denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived.

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

·         We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

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

·         So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

·         The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

·         That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Published in Young Nation magazine on March 4, 2017