Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
“What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof! he… — Various Copy Share Image
“I assume therefore I think I think yet still don't know a goddamn thing.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“Descartes’ s faith in his assertion “I think, therefore I am” may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being… — Friedrich Schelling Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“His naivety was of the sort that Descartes no doubt had in mind when he concluded that the study of history, like… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
![“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become boundless […] In fathoming this abyss no bottom has been found. We are now to examine what discoveries Sir Isaac Newton has made in it.” quote by Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/752/voltaire-173_abyss_descartes-gave-sight-to-the-blind-these_224597.jpg)
