I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a… — 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
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 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 the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share
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
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Copy Share
