I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books. — Rene Descartes Bad habit Copy Share Image
The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we… — Rene Descartes Arrangements Copy Share Image
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. — Rene Descartes Problem Copy Share Image
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of… — Rene Descartes Bounds Copy Share Image
“those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and… — René Descartes Right way Copy Share Image
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. — Rene Descartes Failure Copy Share Image
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. — Rene Descartes Analysis Copy Share Image
“For ’tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.” — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Good sense Copy Share Image
“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not… — Rene Descartes Life Copy Share Image
“By intuition I mean, not the wavering assurance of the senses, or the deceitful judgment of a misconstructed imagination, but a conception,… — René Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Book Copy Share Image
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured,… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might… — René Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the… — René Descartes Success Copy Share Image
“The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might… — René Descartes Knowledge Copy Share Image
Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
