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Quotation from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
“all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind”
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, section 6 (Project Gutenberg text)
Berkeley claims the dependence of all bodies on mind is a truth a man need only open his eyes to see.
Citation: "all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind" — George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, section 6 (Project Gutenberg text). (id berkeley-principles-of-human-knowledge-q5)
Portrait: George Berkeley by Jonh Smibert, John Smibert, Public domain.
