And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes God Copy Share Image
Its not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well :) — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts. — Rene Descartes Power Copy Share Image
“...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.” — René Descartes Advice Copy Share Image
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Ability Copy Share Image
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — 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 Funny Copy Share Image
“that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.” — René Descartes 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
Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Certainty Copy Share Image
And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an… — René Descartes Ignorance Copy Share Image
“The majority of men is composed of two classes, for neither of which would this be at all a befitting resolution: in… — René Descartes Confidence 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… — René Descartes Dreams 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
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct… — René Descartes Culture Copy Share Image
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs… — René Descartes Human Copy Share Image
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — René Descartes Descartes Copy Share Image
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation — Rene Descartes Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)” — René Descartes English Copy Share Image
“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.” — René Descartes Destruction Copy Share Image
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)” — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image