The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — 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
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes 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 man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes 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, then it… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image