“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
“Descartes’ s faith in his assertion “I think, therefore I am” may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle 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
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
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
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“it seems as though Descartes (once more influenced by ideas from previous philosophical traditions) may have slipped into thinking that an idea… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark 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
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
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes.… — Tariq Ramadan 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
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline 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
“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
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
“One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red… — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself...and despite all… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had… — Bertrand Russell 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/i/752/voltaire-173_abyss_descartes-gave-sight-to-the-blind-these_224597.png)
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