Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — Rene Descartes Power Copy Share Image
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books. — Rene Descartes Bad habit Copy Share Image
Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom. — Rene Descartes Diminish Copy Share Image
“...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.” — René Descartes Consideration 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
Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not… — Rene Descartes Deny Copy Share Image
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Philosopher Copy Share Image
“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” — René Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Law Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — Rene Descartes Common Copy Share Image
And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might… — Rene Descartes Enjoy Copy Share Image
And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are… — Rene Descartes Carried away Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Certainty Copy Share Image
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those… — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were… — Rene Descartes Able Copy Share Image
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for… — Rene Descartes Finite 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 All things Copy Share Image
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
“The majority of men is composed of two classes, for neither of which would this be at all a befitting resolution: in… — René Descartes Confidence 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… — René Descartes Dreams Copy Share Image
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these… — René Descartes Assumed 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… — René Descartes Culture 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
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — 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
