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Quotation from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
“we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Introduction, section 3 (Project Gutenberg text)
Berkeley proposes that most of the difficulties that have puzzled philosophers are of their own making.
Citation: "we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." — George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Introduction, section 3 (Project Gutenberg text). (id berkeley-principles-of-human-knowledge-q1)
Portrait: George Berkeley by Jonh Smibert, John Smibert, Public domain.
