Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, first dialogue. The argument as conversation.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for George Berkeley that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “Their esse is percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.” (A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, §3, Well attested).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for George Berkeley is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Esse est percipi: For ordinary things, to be is to be perceived.