“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — 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 Filled 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… — Rene Descartes Blind 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,… — René Descartes Psychology 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
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Law 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
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs… — René Descartes Human body 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… — René Descartes Ignorance 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 Common sense 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,… — Rene Descartes Alternatives 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
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Ability 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 principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared… — Rene Descartes Body 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
... 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
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Behaviour Copy Share Image
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes Attributes 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
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