The more powerful and lively that our idea of God is， the more it will affect our life and character.
The only thing that could make us what we are would be a perception of something like us.
Our ideas of what we believe to be， are not of what they are， but only of what they seem to be.
The same things do not produce the same effects， though conjoined with the same subjects.
To exist is to have a subjective existence.
The cause of light is not in the colors， but in the light.
The question is not whether the thing exists， but whether it has any essence which is capable of existence without us.
The world is like a chessboard， whereon we may see a living knight， but we cannot see a living chess.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word， all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The same principles that at first lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point ends in religion.
The only existence we conceive is the existence of sensible things.
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men， that houses， mountains， rivers， and in a word all sensible objects， have an existence， natural or real， distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.