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 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
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
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
“But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“De wortel is metafysica, de stam is fysica en de takken die daaruit voorkomen, zijn alle andere wetenschappen.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it,… — René Descartes Eternity Copy Share Image
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control… — Rene Descartes Anger Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Argument Copy Share Image
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the… — 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
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Apprehension Copy Share Image
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout… — Rene Descartes Age Copy Share Image
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“But doubtless I did exist, if I persuaded myself of something. But there is some deceiver or other who is supremely powerful… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject… — René Descartes Freedom 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
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.” — René Descartes Imperfection Copy Share Image
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must… — Rene Descartes Desire Copy Share Image
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
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad… — Rene Descartes Bad behavior Copy Share Image
“And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
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 Image
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
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