Principles of Human Knowledge

The 1710 text. 4 parts, about 37,160 words, 3 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Their esse is percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
Part I, section 3 · Read it in Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
An idea can be like nothing but an idea.
Part I, section 8 · Read it in Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
Introduction, section 3 · Read it in Introduction
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them.
Part I, section 23 · Read it in Of the Principles of Human Knowledge

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