Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. — Rene Descartes Adversity Copy Share Image
How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses? — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
“The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for… — René Descartes Adversity Copy Share Image
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes Encouragement Copy Share Image
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes Atheism Copy Share Image
“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of… — René Descartes Doubt 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
“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
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason… — Rene Descartes Blind Copy Share Image
“For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all… — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“there is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen… — René Descartes Excellence Copy Share Image
“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.” — René Descartes Divine grace Copy Share Image
Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am) — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes Argument Copy Share Image
Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels… — Rene Descartes Desire Copy Share Image
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six… — Rene Descartes Battle Copy Share Image
Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall… — 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,… — Rene Descartes Desire Copy Share Image
“I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel… — Rene Descartes Aberration Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend.… — Rene Descartes Action Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Behaviour Copy Share Image
“I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has… — René Descartes Philosophers Copy Share Image
