When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Philosopher Copy Share Image
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Law Copy Share Image
“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” — René Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — 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 Care Copy Share Image
So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in… — Rene Descartes Brain 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
On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,… — Rene Descartes 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
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be… — René Descartes Religion Copy Share Image
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes Certainty 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… — René Descartes Desires Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I am in doubt as to the propriety of making my first meditations in the place above mentioned matter of discourse; for… — René Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that… — Rene Descartes Animal Copy Share Image
“For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign… — René Descartes Artist Copy Share Image
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than… — Rene Descartes Boundaries Copy Share Image
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — Rene Descartes Affection Copy Share Image
“...all that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment” — René Descartes Decision making Copy Share Image
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes Dream Copy Share Image
“("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to… — René Descartes Existence Copy Share Image
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — 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 Funny Copy Share Image
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. — Rene Descartes Dream Copy Share Image
“The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes Adventure Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
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