‘Berkeley was of course thinking of God. He said that “we can moreover claim that the existence of God is far more clearly perceived than the existence of man.”’ ‘Is it not even certain that we exist?’ ‘Yes, and no. Everything we see and feel is “an effect of God’s power,” said Berkeley. For God is “intimately present in our consciousness, causing to exist for us the profusion of ideas and perceptions that we are constantly subject to.” The whole world around us and our whole life exist in God. He is the one cause of everything that exists. We exist only in the mind of God.’ ‘I am amazed, to
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