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"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some
time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence
of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that
though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it.
I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot
with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it—“I refute it thus.”"
—James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
"There is nothing . . . more abstract than reality."
—Giorgio Morandi, interview with Edouard Roditi