Distrust Quote by Allen W. Wood

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct…

— Derrick Jensen

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature…

— David Hume

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple…

— Voltaire

“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained by previous…

— George Santayana

Control of senses is an important human value.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

— Aristotle

We live on the leash of our senses.

— Diane Ackerman

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

— James Mark Baldwin

“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

— William Barrett