We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Funny Copy Share Image
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes Contemplate Copy Share Image
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books. — Rene Descartes Bad habit Copy Share Image
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. — Rene Descartes Amazed Copy Share Image
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than… — Rene Descartes Difficult Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training… — Rene Descartes Absolutes Copy Share Image
“For ’tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.” — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them. — Rene Descartes Adversity Copy Share Image
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. — Rene Descartes Failure Copy Share Image
“those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and… — René Descartes Right way Copy Share Image
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. — Rene Descartes Analysis Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Book Copy Share Image
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured,… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent… — Rene Descartes Able Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Ancient Copy Share Image
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Good sense Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,… — René Descartes Applications Copy Share Image
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another… — René Descartes Better things Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the… — Rene Descartes Courses Copy Share Image
“The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might… — René Descartes Knowledge 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 Able Copy Share Image
“The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the… — René Descartes Success Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — René Descartes Success Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Accepting Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because… — Rene Descartes Comparison Copy Share Image
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