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Most if not all of philosophy's difficulties are probably of philosophers' own making
Drawn from what George Berkeley said
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- George Berkeley Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 to 1753)
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves--that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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↗A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)gutenberg.org
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