Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely…

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

— Henry Miller

It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and…

— Allen W. Wood

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are…

— Christopher Hitchens

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes…

— Allen W. Wood

“logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married.”

— Tom Robbins

“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual…

— Franklin Foer

“Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof! he vanishes.”

— Various

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality…

— Edgar Mitchell

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

— Ernest Sosa

“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a means…

— René Descartes

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become…

— Voltaire

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into…

— Sophus Lie