George Berkeley Quotes
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
Berkeley, George. "Letter to Thomas Prior." The Works of George Berkeley, edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser, vol. 4, Clarendon Press, 1901.
He particularly had difficulty with the Pope and whose authority was supposed to be dominant in Europe. King Henry left the Catholic Church and made Protestantism the official English Church. It has been such ever since—all the result of a power struggle between two men.
He was a poor governor in general and was fired and replaced by the Dutch East India Company which was a happy occurrence for the colonists. The company was a money making institution and depended on colonists who would farm, trade and manufacture. If they were unhappy, the company would not profit. They would not have minded a tyrant if he could produce profits as some did in the Dutch East Indies, but Kieft was a loser on all counts.
George Berkeley – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the minds and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.
