We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Copy Share
